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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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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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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One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.
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My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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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.
