Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.
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Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.
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There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
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I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
