Adrian Tomine Quotes
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
Quotes to Explore
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Justice is revenge.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
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I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.
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My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
