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Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.
Akira Toriyama
Draw
Ideas
Always
Coming
Mixing
Up
Targeted
Children
Want
Things
Basically
I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.
Akira Toriyama
Side
Mischievous
Also
Tall
Child
What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.
Akira Toriyama
Regret
First
Consider
Way
Pen
Cartoonist
Having
Name
Most
Becoming
Real
Sell
Real Name
Anyhow
After
Used
Figured
Using
Even
I have absolutely no preferences when it comes to food.
Akira Toriyama
Food
Absolutely
Preferences
If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.
Akira Toriyama
People
Become
Never
Had
Since
Although
Handle
Person
Move
So Many People
Just
Moved
Being
Different
Wanted
Might
Different Person
Tokyo
Many
Even
Ever
Start
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves.
Akira Toriyama
Fight
Book
Panel
Case
Give
Scenes
Layout
Take
Smaller
Opened
Like
Alter
Ball
Making
Movement
Bigger
Them
Themselves
Across
Pages
Things
Two
Dragon
Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.
Akira Toriyama
Work
Thinking
Drawing
Pictures
Like
Greatest
Hobby
Much
Really
Lumped
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Dreams
People
Understand
Role
Realize
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Work
Three
Last-Minute
Everything
Way
Months
Minute
Given
Days
Very
Even
Last
Two
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
Ayumi Hamasaki
You
Reality
People
Think
Meet
Admire
Most
Want
Should
Interfere
Image
I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Sometimes
Try
Films
Worse
Airplane
Though
Recognized
Wear
Costume
Most
Read
Because
Go
Get
Anymore
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Movies
Much
Watch
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Dreams
Me
People
Long
Own
My Own
Take
No-One
Songs
Understand
Role
Realize
Away
It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Am
Product
Viewed
Necessary
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Music
Knowledge
Writing
About
Lack
Professional
Even
Basic
I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Love
Myself
Wake Up
Tomorrow
Dance
Giving
Giving Up
Before
Whatever
Clothes
Design
Think
Way
Abandoning
About
Throw
Knowing
Doing
Wake
Up
Die
Want
Wanted
Decide
Moment
Lived
Now
Design Clothes
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Theatre
Mother
Ran
Detour
Join
Aristocrat
Genes
Although
Hollywood
Acting
Tokyo
Who
Away
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Warrior
Part
Look
Native
Asian
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Work
You
Too Much
Too
Week
Almost
Like
Movie
Much
Working
Series
Start
I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Before
Healer
Came
Off
Hollywood
Originally
Started
I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Become
Breath
Believe
Tool
Ultimate
Itself
Really
The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Life
Needs
Language
Hawaiian
Studied
Globally
Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Me
Together
Heights
Kind
High
Rather
Scene
Both
Through
Had
Terrified
Got
Were
Julie
Encouraging
Up
Very
Quite
Afraid
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Character
People
Strong
Thought
Somebody
Fighting
Think
Stature
See
Generally
Smaller
Between
Unusual
Itself
Situations
Being
Interesting
Being Strong
Who
Therefore
A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Girl
Year
Mine
Released
Sometime
Waitress
Train
Get
Going
Movie
Decided
Title
Japan
Japanese
Really
Next
Regular
Next Year
English
Play
It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
Chiaki Kuriyama
First
Way
Would
Would-Be
Some
Pretty
Exception
Had
Ideas
Also
Read
Although
Were
Script
Much
Incorporated
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Think
Schoolgirl
Understand
American
Japanese
Really
Fascination
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