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Adrian Tomine Quotes

For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1974

Topics

Time Myself Romantic Vacation Dating

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

Work Time Mind Enough Down I Can

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

Time Sleep Stand Feel Attention Pay

I love Martin Amis.

Love I Love Martin

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Politics Wishes Others Conservative

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Mother Technology Son Ambition You

When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

Work Women Woman Me Looking Look

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

Great Train Never Robbery Diminished

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

Energy Thought You Know Jazz Awards

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Growth History Building Bridges

'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'

I work out not to lose weight but to maintain my good health. And anyway, if I did want to lose weight, it would be no one's decision but my own.

Work Good Good Health Health Lose

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