Jason Blum Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
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'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.
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'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
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With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.
