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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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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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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There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.
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When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
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Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.
