Jason Blum Quotes
Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.' Nobody. Nobody wanted to make 'The Purge.' I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make 'The Gift,' when it was a script called 'Weirdo.'
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Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.
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If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
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We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.
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Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
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Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.' Nobody. Nobody wanted to make 'The Purge.' I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make 'The Gift,' when it was a script called 'Weirdo.'
