Adrian Tomine Quotes
The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
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The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
