James Wan Quotes
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.
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Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.
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It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.
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Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.
