James Wan Quotes

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

James Wan

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• I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Jump
  • Ready
  • Ring

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • City
  • Sad
  • Los Angeles

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • History
  • Sea

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Good
  • Play
  • Anything

• The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
  • Family
  • Money

• Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Singing
  • Loved
  • Shower

• Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Right
  • Dissent

• This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Canvas

• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Ambition is the death of thought.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Death
  • Ambition

• I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Different
  • Done
  • Truth

• The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

  

  Kishore Chandra Deo
  • Respect
  • Stress

• My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

  

  Danielle Steel

• I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Search

• I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Creative
  • Permission
  • Rewarding

• I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

  

  James Wan