Jason Blum Quotes
You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
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The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.
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In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.
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What we love about working at Marvel is they'll have a crazy opening for a movie like 'The Avengers' - like, a record-breaking all-time opening - and you get to the office on Monday, and they don't even have a pizza; it's back-to-work time.
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You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.
