Adrian Tomine Quotes

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.

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• My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
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• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
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• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
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• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
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• 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
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• The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
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• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
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• Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).

  

  Neil T Anderson
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• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

  

  Darren Criss

• There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.

  

  Adrian Tomine
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