Jason Blum Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.
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I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.
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It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.
