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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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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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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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
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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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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
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I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.
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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.
