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Adrian Tomine Quotes

I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ideas Wave Magic Back Fresh Crack

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

People Think Windows Sometimes Say

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

Home Business Go Way Try Always

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

Life Rest You Out Final Your

I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

Fat Vegetables Salt Sometimes More

Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn't feel like you're stupid when you're frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, 'I can't do this,' but you should say, 'That's great.' That means you really have the potential to learn something there.

Angela Duckworth

Learning Great Yourself Stupid Learn

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

People Decisions Wrong Pilot Right

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Marriage Home Age Time Happy Night

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Love Mirror Beer Bottle Only Been

I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top.

Myself People Think Appreciate Long

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Alone Story You Pictures Know See

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Language British Accent Shakespeare

There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.

Change Men Young Genre Young Men

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