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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
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As a British rider, it's a privilege to be able to compete on home roads. The British public have really taken to cycling, and you can see that when the race goes through different towns: the community really gets behind it.
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.
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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.
