Adrian Tomine Quotes
All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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I don't do things I can't win.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.
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All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
