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

• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  

  Izaak Walton
  • Men
  • Poetry
  • Born

• I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Up
  • Money
  • Future

• At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Halloween

• I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Kids
  • College

• Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Children
  • Stupidity
  • Aspiration

• 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