Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

Jodie Sweetin

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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andrea Riseborough

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We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

Jeff Bezos

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I used to read comics when I was a kid.

Jeff Bridges

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My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Jeff Bridges

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No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.

Steve Irwin

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I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

Russell Simmons

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'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Mason Cooley

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Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

Lucy Dacus

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But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Ludacris

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After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.

Julia Sawalha

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