Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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Tiffani-Amber Thiessen thought we were all on blow....Tori Spelling hung out with us backstage and gave us the lowdown. Brian Austin Green, kept telling us about his music. Ian Ziering was kind of a dick. Maybe he was having a bad day.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
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District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.
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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
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I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.
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Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.
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In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
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People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.
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As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
