Jason Blum Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.
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This is a great success. We thank the community for its support and want to let them know our recruiting efforts are paying off.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.
