Tomi Adeyemi Quotes

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

Tomi Adeyemi

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CommunityCarePrettyFriendlyYa

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Jim Backus

TryEatRadioSourceBecauseLike

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga

HistoryCultureHumanSomething

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

John Galliano

ArtJoyDressingRoomGap

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

John Caudwell

LearningMeLearnCurvesYouEarly

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Robert Sheckley

GreatMeQuestionsPhilosophyDeal

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

Metta World Peace

CrazyWorldThinkDoneUpThings

I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.

Rob Sheffield

LoveStartLovedYouConversation

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Ron Silver

GoodEnergySkillConcentrationThen

I am more important than my problems.

Jose Ferrer

I AmProblemsImportantMoreThan

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

Jonas Mekas

ChangeTechnologyTreeLeafCamera

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

Diego Klattenhoff

MoneyTreesYouDownUpAnything

If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.

Chris Eigeman

AgeStartBelieveMoralsWeekYou

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