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Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

My stories are often a little mysterious.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mysterious Little Stories Often

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

I Am American Army Air Force Navy

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Sports Play Low Than Any Hotter

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Jez Butterworth

Music Time Experience Trying I Can

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

Time Myself Mistakes Sorry Feeling

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Home Language Army Understand Never

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

Mother Best Me Impossible Dressed

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Mean Watch Moves Often Really

In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

Good Humor Experience People Sense

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

Ronnie Musgrove

Kindness Father Mother Relationship

Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.

Love Someone You Just Because Mean

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Character Start Face Finding You

Most strikingly, 'World of Warcraft' allows you to live a veritable second life. Girls can pretend to be boys; boys can pretend to be girls; human accountants can pretend to be elven mages.

Life Live World You Human Pretend

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