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Cornelia Funke Quotes

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Me Book Library Always Both

I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.

John Edgar Wideman

Time Space Think Hell Kind My Own

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

Myself Ride Mountains Horse Three

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.

Beauty Imagination Words Window Here

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

New York People Small New Know Up

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

Forward Opportunities Think Help

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Stephen Gardiner

Style American Order Necessity Grid

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that's the great thing about fashion. In a way, it's like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.

Great Day Fashion Wish Look Acting

I never drink wine. There's only one wine I like, but I forget what it's called. It tastes like Sprite.

Wine Forget Drink Never Only Like

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Up Got Books Six Cartoons Thousand

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writing Say Something Precise Very

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

Jose Angel Gurria

Quality Competition Better Enough

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.

Joke Anything Apologizing

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