Mark Waters Quotes
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.
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I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
