#ok

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#cameron #ever #fan #fan mail #grandmother

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#friends #get #get married #girlfriends #handle

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changing #disappearing #family #look #metaphors

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#broken heart #cigar #elevator #fat #five

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy. ↗

— Alan Bates

#book #comedy #even #go #you

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#challenge #character #different #different kind #empathy

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#looking #other #people #things #within

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#different #different way #duty #i #i think