Jason Blum Quotes
When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I take my work seriously.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch.
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Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
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Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.
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When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.
