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Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Book Parent Doing Year Back

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

Jerry Saltz

Myself Sun Me Thinking Someone Way

I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

John B. Larson

War Learn Traveled Three Meet Talk

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

Andrew Bogut

Long Years Days Pretty Seven Tenure

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

John James Audubon

Alone Singing Flying Chance Plant

A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.

Robert J. Shiller

Health People Care End Enough You

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

Matthew McConaughey

Choices Enough Look Back Career

I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves - what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.

Stefon Diggs

Step People Me Little Things You

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Mother Child Think Twice Her Once

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Trent Lott

Freedom Tyranny Never Out Once Won

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

Jon Taffer

Home Guitar Drum Set Amplifier

I had bags of energy as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

Energy Kid Bags Had

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

Condola Rashad

Girl Woman World Black Place Play