Jason Blum Quotes
What I loved about 'War Dogs' was the fact that the tone - turning that story into a spectacular two hour ride is just such a complicated thing to do.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
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What I loved about 'War Dogs' was the fact that the tone - turning that story into a spectacular two hour ride is just such a complicated thing to do.
