Jason Blum Quotes

I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

Jason Blum

• Halloween

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• I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Truth
  • Kind
  • Truth Is

• I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Book
  • Friend

• I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Fun
  • Desire
  • Trust

• Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Life
  • Party
  • Serious

• I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.

  

  Brendan Dooling
  • College

• I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Culture

• We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

  

  Donald T. Regan
  • Done

• Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Rock

• Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

  

  Marc Anthony
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Golf

• We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.

  

  Kathy Ireland
  • Good

• I think, my first season on 'SNL,' I watched every single episode of 'Step by Step,' and a few years prior to that, I watched every single episode of 'Family Matters.'

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Family
  • Single

• You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Up
  • Different
  • Home

• I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

  

  Chirlane McCray

• I don't think anyone has a normal family.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Family

• More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Music
  • Important
  • American

• Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

  

  James Allen
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Hypocrisy
  • Distortion

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Children
  • Funny

• I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

  

  Lin Shaye
  • Texas
  • Friday
  • Halloween

• But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Problem
  • Failure
  • Language

• I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Halloween