Jason Blum Quotes

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Experience
  • Lucky
  • Very

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Constitution
  • Refuse
  • Strife

• There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Doing
  • Movies

• In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Woman

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Want
  • Talk

• Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Juggle

• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Reach
  • Within
  • Trusted

• Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

  

  Jason Blum
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