Jason Blum Quotes
Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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I like being unconventional.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.
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The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.
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I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.
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You don't go to an X-rated movie if you don't want to watch it.
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Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
