Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
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Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.
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The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
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Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.
