Jason Bateman Quotes
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
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I know who I am. I know what I love.
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I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.
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When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.
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We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.
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If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.
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I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
