Akira Toriyama Quotes

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

Akira Toriyama

• Artist
• Manga
• Scrutinized

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• My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Want
  • Play
  • Capable

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Behavior
  • Daring

• When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Standardized

• The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Challenges
  • Learned
  • Lessons

• There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Body
  • Very

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Always
  • Same
  • Leave

• I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Life
  • Rest

• I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Guy

• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Work
  • Long
  • Mind

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Understanding
  • Artist
  • Listening

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Friend
  • Yourself

• I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

  

  Akira Toriyama
  • Artist
  • Manga
  • Scrutinized