Cornelia Funke Quotes
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
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The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
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My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
