Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.Chris Van Allsburg
Quotes to Explore
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
Oscar Isaac -
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
Victor LaValle -
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci -
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill -
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen -
No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
Gary Goetzman
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
Natalie Portman -
It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
Cameron Dallas -
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang -
I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
Cara Black -
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Taylor Swift -
Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
Saina Nehwal
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
Viggo Mortensen -
I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
Randeep Hooda -
You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
Salma Hayek -
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Dana Plato -
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Patricia Richardson -
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
Clemence Poesy -
I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There's no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.
Jeremy Scott -
'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.
John Romaniello -
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton Mather -
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
Chris Van Allsburg