"Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing."

-- Adrian Tomine

#Nice Quotes #Artist Quotes #People Quotes

“Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.”

Source : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
“Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.”
“The greatest thing about Facebook is that you can quote anyone without actually getting it right and nobody will know the difference”
“Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another...”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.72, 谷月社
“Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!”
“You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.”
“The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.”
“When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.”

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