Cornelia Funke Quotes
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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All of my love - all of my kissin’ You don’t know what you’ve been a-missin’ Oh boy - when you’re with me - oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
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Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
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'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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I make most of my friends through my extracurricular activities.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
