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Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Sky Think Feeling Gone Tender

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

John Boyega

Life Challenge Rest My Life Movies

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Andrew Denton

Work Comedy You Hard Middle-Aged

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Andrew Jackson

Control End Hands You Find Become

I seem to play in spurts. Somebody will tell me about a cool game, then I'll run out and play for a bit, but then I'm done.

Matt Cain

Me Cool Game Play Done Run

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.

Jeff Koons

Waiting Remember Sculpture First Got

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Tony Benn

Romantic Think Care Doing You Going

Batman's not mine. He doesn't necessarily belong to me. As a character, he belongs first to the audience and second to the hundreds of writers who have been writing him in comics for 75 years.

Tom King

Character Me Writing First Audience

It's funny: wrestlers and comics bond over remembering their best shows and their absolute worst shows.

Mick Foley

Traveled Wrestling Dying Alabama

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Michael Leunig

Soul Angel Looks Innocent Childlike

I think I have one of the best jobs.

Josh McDaniels

Best Think I Think Jobs

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

Don Winslow

City Connection Crime Books Prince

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Diane Sawyer

Commitment Conversation Contract Our