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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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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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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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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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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Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I'm sensitive to the things I see.
