Adrian Tomine Quotes
There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
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We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
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There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.
