Jason Blum Quotes
I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
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I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.
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We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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There are people, also, who cannot believe that beauty and gaiety are a part of goodness. When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
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Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
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A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in behind or gets that one extra step that leads to a shot.
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We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'
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I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.
