Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.Chris Van Allsburg
Quotes to Explore
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
Adam Hicks -
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
Olivia Wilde -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Wendy O. Williams -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun -
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
Halle Berry
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My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt -
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Eddie Floyd -
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White -
A hard man is good to find.
Mae West -
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Ferran Adria
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The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
Samira Wiley -
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Angelina Grimke -
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
R. K. Milholland -
Lebanon has not, and will never become a passage for conspiracy against Syria.
Javier Solana -
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
Chris Van Allsburg