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.Jason Blum
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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.
Yahya Jammeh -
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.
J. Anthony Lukas -
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.
Samuel Butler -
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.
Octavio Paz -
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
Mamie Van Doren -
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
Macaulay Culkin
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Vaclav Havel -
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard -
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
Quentin Blake -
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
Edith Piaf -
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.
Kate Bush
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
Edgar Wright -
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi -
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
Yancy Butler -
So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
Aaron Ashmore -
My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
Jack Dangermond -
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.
Samuel Morse
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Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
David Hackworth -
The minute he arrived at his own parents' house and was confronted by the smallness of the rooms, the old walls covered with dusty calendars, and passepartout pictures of animals, the electrical wires snaking and dangling loosely from the ceiling, the buzzing fluorescent lamp that never lit properly, transforming the house into a gloomy, dusty cubicle, he wanted to return to the city. He could not properly splice in movie landscapes here, because everything was too familiar, and because he was too connected with the droning quarrels.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
Jim Rogers -
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.
Jason Blum