Adrian Tomine Quotes

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• In our league, it comes right down to the end.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • End
  • Right
  • Down

• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Never
  • Find

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Kids

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Work
  • Different
  • Knowledge

• Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Job
  • Weirder

• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Sometimes
  • Shows
  • Three

• If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Christmas

• Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Men

• The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Energy

• Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Important
  • Propaganda
  • Diplomacy

• People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

  

  Wendy Harmer
  • People
  • Broken
  • Airports

• I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Respect

• 'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

  

  Adrian Tomine