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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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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I'm sensitive to the things I see.
