Jason Bateman Quotes

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.

Jason Bateman

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1969

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When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

Jens Lekman

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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Jeff Bezos

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Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

Michael Dirda

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When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

Roger Corman

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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Ron Chernow

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I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

Rumaan Alam

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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

Marv Levy

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Whenever I'm not working, I try to be in classes as much as I can.

Joseph David-Jones

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I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

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I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

Donna Rice

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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

Paula Pell

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