Jason Bateman Quotes
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
