Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimePeopleMeStoryThinkingFirst

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

Andrew Whitworth

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The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.

Michael Connelly

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I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.

John Shelby Spong

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With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

Ana Ivanovic

TrustExperienceMeExpectationsYou

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

Sophia Loren

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With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

Sophie Hunger

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I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.

Spencer Boldman

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Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

UglyFeelingNeverAlwaysSurface

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

Mike Rogers

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Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.

Michael Pollan

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I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

Luke Evans

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I'd love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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