Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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People see what they want to see.
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As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
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In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.
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For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
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When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'
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The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?
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In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
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We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
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My stories are often a little mysterious.
