"I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it."

-- Adrian Tomine

#Teenage Quotes #Artist Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.”
“The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.”
“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the clichÃ© that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”
“A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.”
“the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.”
“And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.”

Source : "Mx Justin Vivian Bond: Backwards and in High Heels". Interview with Ron Bennington, theinterrobang.com. October 24, 2011.
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
“I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.

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