Jason Bateman Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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They are women who are standing on their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it. Think of how the world can be a much better place if, for a change, we have a better equality, we have equality, we have a representation and we understand war, both from the front-line and the back-line discussion.
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in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
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I'm never happier than in the bed.
