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All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
Claudia Schiffer
Time
Me
Age
About
Bother
Talk
Moan
Friends
Same
Same Time
Ageing
My friends often tell me how very German I still am.
Claudia Schiffer
Me
Tell
How
Am
Still
Friends
German
Very
Often
My passion is my family and the world of fashion.
Claudia Schiffer
Fashion
Family
World
Passion
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
Claudia Schiffer
Me
Men
Think
Meet
Approach
Guess
Another
Because
Very
Afraid
Planet
Many
Actually
I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.
Claudia Schiffer
Work
Good
Great
Quality
Understanding
Design
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Mention
Over
Importance
Well
Learned
Years
Cut
Body
Now
Amount
Designers
Watching
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer
Me
Money
Conservative
Project
Mine
Someone
Risk
Risky
Invest
Idea
Am
Very
Anything
Them
I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.
Claudia Schiffer
Three
Gone
Incredible
Out
Week
Through
Combination
Days
Pilates
Always
Yoga
Different
Worked
Phases
It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
Claudia Schiffer
Today
Reality
Competition
Girl
Become
Stars
Difficult
Nineties
Say
East
Magazine
More
Countries
Opened
Also
Were
Covers
Lot
Up
Very
Than
Models
Famous
Many
Now
Actress
Compete
Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.
Claudia Schiffer
Time
Morning
Teenager
Nobody
Like
Trying
Keep
Things
Load
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Claus von Stauffenberg
Man
Challenge
Evil
Before
Took
Our
Our Lord
Must
He
Because
Lord
Ultimate
Done
Conscience
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
Claus von Stauffenberg
Work
War
Organization
Stupid
Think
Our
Out
High
High Level
General
More
Could
Had
Highly
Most
Qualified
Nonsensical
Been
Officers
Staff
Anything
Which
Work Out
Produced
Level
Present
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
Conrad Veidt
Think
Know
Am
Precision
Order
Prefer
Then
Used
Bohemian
Now
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt
Heart
First
Written
Remembers
Piece
Praise
His
Actor
Published
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
Conrad Veidt
Myself
Me
Struggle
Fight
Joy
World
Competition
Half
Has-Been
Winning
Been
Pitting
Achieving
Against
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
Conrad Veidt
Work
Time
Myself
Business
Soul
Heart
Hate
Picture
Stupid
Stage
Think
Despise
Unless
All My Heart
Scenes
Could
Never
Part
Industry
Felt
Am
Motion
Motion Picture
Motion Picture Industry
Heart And Soul
Short
Disgusted
Acting
Film
Play
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Conrad Veidt
Picture
Earthquake
Magician
Real
Hit
Just
Middle
Hollywood
Third
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Conrad Veidt
Day
Me
Hurt
Regret
Father
Too
See
Only
Had
He
Forced
Him
Still
Died
Done
The Only Thing
Acting
Choosing
Deep
Right
Thing
Early
Career
There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
Conrad Veidt
Nature
Me
Woman
Heart
Happy
Believe
All My Heart
Must
Something
Perfectly
Making
Been
Being
Which
Conquered
Now
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
Cornelia Funke
Write
Plan
Sequel
Rider
Dragon
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke
Library
Happy
Book
Imagine
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
Cornelia Funke
Myself
Ride
Year
Imagination
Always
Wanted
Decided
Dragon
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia Funke
People
Feeling
Every
Books
Characters
About
Seem
More
Reader
Knows
Real
Than
Real People
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
Cornelia Funke
Me
People
Thought
Books
Always
Heard
Motives
German
Very
Influenced
Much
England
Many
Found
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
Cornelia Funke
Good
She
Very
Stories
Grandmother
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke
Every
Think
Books
Inspired
She
Reads
Author
Oh
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
Cornelia Funke
Mythical
Many
Creatures
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