Jason Blum Quotes
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!
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I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors. It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.
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Whatever may be the defects of Gibbon's history, none can deny him a proud precision and a style in marching order.
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I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies-as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.
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Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
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If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
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Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
