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You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

~Chris Tucker

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Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

~Chris Tucker

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The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

~Chris Van Allsburg

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It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

~Chris Van Allsburg

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In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

~Chris Van Hollen

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