Cornelia Funke Quotes
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June -
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
Vince Cable -
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
Larry King -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
Sam Brownback
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Joanne Rowling -
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
A. J. Liebling -
I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
J. Christopher Burch -
I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
Questlove -
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
Omar Sharif
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
Pamela Dean -
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
Irwin Shaw -
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.
Mandy Moore
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott -
So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
Matthew Vaughn -
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
Adam DeVine -
I would rather be a member of this Afrikan race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
Edward Wilmot Blyden -
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia Funke