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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Sometimes when troops are overseas working these incredibly long hours in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.
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Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
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You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
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I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
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I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
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It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.
