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.
Jason Blum
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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.
Pankaj Mishra
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
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.
Irina Shayk
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.
Orison Swett Marden
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci
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.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
Octavia Spencer
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
B. D. Wong
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.
Zach Anner
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
Edward Felten
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Jill Lepore
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits
Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
Umair Haque
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.
Jason Blum
