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.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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.
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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.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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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.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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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.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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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.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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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.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
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A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
