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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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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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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It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.
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I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.
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Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
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It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.
