Jason Blum Quotes
One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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You put Drake on anything, and it's money.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
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We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
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One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.
