Jason Blum Quotes
I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It's good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
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This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It's good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.
