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Cornelia Funke Quotes

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: german
Birth: December 10, 1958

Topics

Happy Book Library Imagine

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Shadow Growing Up Growing Up Lived

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Money Me Feel White Way Always

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Family Women Health Step Planning

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Mother Happy College Me Sister Plan

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

World Believe Feel Look Create Way

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

Christina Aguilera

My Own Out Own Watch Show Even

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

Eyes Personality Feel Television

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Father Husband Sexy Become Watching

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.

Success God Science Spiritual Spirit

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

William McDonough

Power Design Optimistic Inherently

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Princess Margaret

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.

Yourself Year You Circumstances Way

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