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When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.

Adrian Tomine

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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
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Sacramento
California
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