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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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
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I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.
