Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.
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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
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While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
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Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.
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I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.
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As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.
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In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.
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Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
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There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.
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It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.
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I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.
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I'm sensitive to the things I see.
