Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.
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I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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'Well, what do you know,' Pham said. 'Butterflies in jackboots.'
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There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.
