Jason Bateman Quotes
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
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I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.
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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
