Mark Waters Quotes

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

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• It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Sexy

• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• I try to stay focused.

  

  OMI
  • Try
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• I'm actually not on Twitter.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Actually
  • Twitter

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Up
  • Look
  • Young

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Everyone
  • Class
  • Another

• I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

  

  Jim Harrison

• The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Country
  • Singing
  • Worry

• I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Imagination
  • Vivid

• It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

  

  Mark Waters
  • People
  • Movie
  • Comedy