Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
Chris Van Allsburg
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Bear Grylls
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
Aaron Eckhart
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
Nancy Carell
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
Washed Out
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
Dan Butler
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
Jay McInerney
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
Dar Williams
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I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.
Ed Askew
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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."
Quentin Tarantino
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What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
Chris Van Allsburg
