Jason Bateman Quotes
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
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When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
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I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
