Jason Blum Quotes
In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.
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I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.
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I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
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Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.
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In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.
