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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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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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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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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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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It deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.
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Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.
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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.
