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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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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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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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
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The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.
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Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.
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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.
