Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
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I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.
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I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
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There are some brands that we didn't expect to do well in India, like Alice + Olivia. But they sell like hot cakes because women here seem to love it.
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Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.
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It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.
