Jason Bateman Quotes
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.
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The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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Companies have to nurture creativity and motivation-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
