Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Andrew Motion

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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Stephen Hawking

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I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

Sonia Rykiel

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Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

Tom Reiss

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'CSI's been a great blessing for me. It's been a platform that's allowed me to go around the country and the world, really, and speak on issues of disability, but I've never - I'm a professional actor, so I studied for years; I do theater. I never want to disrespect what got me here.

Robert David Hall

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I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans.

Clive Cussler

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Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang zoom' of it. As many explosions as possible.

Brian Stelfreeze

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I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Ashley Scott

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I'd developed numbness on my left side. I'd also become paranoid that my boyfriend was cheating on me. I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. One psychiatrist told me I was bipolar.

Susannah Cahalan

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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Sylvia Plath

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I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

Peter Gabriel

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