Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1949

Topics

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My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

Joe Manchin

GreatPeopleMeSayingCareYou

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LiveRelationshipMountainsYourself

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

Jennifer Aniston

LifeSomeoneWatchesYouKnowWay

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

John Key

PeopleMeWantEventsKidSocial

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Robert Kennedy

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

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I got my hair braided at this event once, and when I got the pictures back from it, I just became obsessed with them. They're kind of my thing now.

Sofia Richie

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I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

Robin S. Sharma

PeopleSpeakYouI CanNowGroup

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

Roger Ailes

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I remember bossing my younger siblings around and making them put on shows and skits with me.

Rose Leslie

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At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

Michel Faber

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'Monster Trucks' is like a big action movie.

Lucas Till

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