Jason Bateman Quotes
If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.
