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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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.
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I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.
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There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.
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Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.