Adrian Tomine Quotes

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

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• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Bored

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Woman
  • Balance
  • Partner

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Looking

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Think

• I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Game
  • Tough

• God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Doors
  • Open

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Band

• I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Past
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Process

• Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Live
  • Spring

• Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Air
  • Sweet
  • Calm

• The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

  

  Larry Wall

• 'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Find
  • Logic
  • Poirot

• When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.

  

  Maripol
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

  

  Bill James
  • People
  • Party

• Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

  

  John Glenn
  • Space

• It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

  

  Karl Urban
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom.

  

  Kathryn Erbe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Energy

• I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

  

  Adrian Tomine