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's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.' We felt like that wasn't really what was going on.

Jessie Mueller

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jessamyn West

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Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

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If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Stephane Hessel

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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

Stendhal

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I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.

Ron Reagan

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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

Ron Silver

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You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.

Ry Cooder

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I loved my job at the paper. I loved meeting new people every day and never knowing where I would end up. But somehow, the ever-shifting schedules of a police officer and a reporter did not equal 'family friendly.' One of us needed to take a normal job for the sake of our young daughter.

Molly Harper

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I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and that a family is a great place to learn leadership skills. I'm sure I benefited by having a mom and mad, both of whom were actively involved in the community and in various enterprises.

Mitt Romney

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

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When you have something special, it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that's special and trash it.

Christina Milian

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