Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
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Liberal democracies like ours seem, for the most part, to have learned how to avoid meticulously planned mass-casualty plots with the complexity and scale of 9/11. But they don't know how to keep their citizens safe at night clubs and concerts, in supermarkets, on beachfront promenades, from truck drivers.
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I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
