Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.Chris Van Allsburg
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
Eartha Kitt -
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams -
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
Dan Farmer -
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
Queen Latifah -
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine -
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
Larry Wilmore -
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Taylor Swift
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
Rain -
I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
Dane Cook -
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz -
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips -
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale -
I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
Samira Wiley
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We're giving those benefits away, which we earn as citizens of this nation, of being legalized citizens.
Jeff Duncan -
Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
Laura Esquivel -
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
Lake Bell -
El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Antonio Porchia -
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
Eric Reed Boucher -
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
Chris Van Allsburg