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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I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
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'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.' Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.
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I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.
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I'm never happier than in the bed.
