Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

Maurice Sendak

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The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

Matt Cameron

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I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.

Michael Winter

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I believe that I am male and I am female.

Joni Mitchell

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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

Douglass North

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I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Dianne Wiest

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I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Donna Mills

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When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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I say what I think and I think what I say.

Brigitte Bardot

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Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Aravind Adiga

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When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Lynn Swann

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