Jason Bateman Quotes

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Choices
  • Hard
  • Necessity

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Truth
  • History
  • Period

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Business
  • Faith
  • Law

• We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

  

  J Allard
  • Done
  • Holiday
  • Three

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Good
  • May
  • Power

• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

  

  Eric Berne

• Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Time
  • Career

• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  

  Paul Valery

• Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

  

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