Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.
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Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.
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The Katrina matter was terrible.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.
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I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
