Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.
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Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.
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African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
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I love writing music.
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If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
