Quotes by Thinking The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry. Adrian Matejka insecurityblackthinking When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on Adrian Mitchell i-think-of-youthink-of-youthinking If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best? Adrian Peterson you-re-the-bestifsthinking You look at Ray Lewis, you look at Brett Favre. I know it's different positions, but you think about the mental mindset it takes to continue to grind and play at a high level. Those are the guys that I look at that motivate me. Adrian Peterson guyplaythinking I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am. Adrian Peterson numberspeoplethinking I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think. Adrian Rogers thinking Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance! Adrian Rogers wishful-thinkingrocksthinking So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. Adrian Tan longyearsthinking I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do. Adrian Tomine storiespeoplethinking I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment. Adrian Tomine criticismcharacterthinking I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out. Adrian Tomine termevolutionthinking I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause. Adrian Tomine lonelykidsthinking When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists. Adrian Tomine artiststrugglethinking I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker." Adrian Tomine family-and-friendscaliforniathinking I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist." Adrian Tomine artistpastthinking The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that." Adrian Tomine readingpeoplethinking I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is. Adrian Tomine realpeoplethinking In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure. Adrian Tomine ipadsbookthinking And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd. Adrian Tomine safe-havenartistthinking I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory in any way. I think there's this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done. Adrian Tomine popular-entertainmentvoicethinking«3435363738394041424344»
