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'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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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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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
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If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
