Cornelia Funke Quotes
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
