Cressida Cowell Quotes
This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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You never know how much time you got.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.
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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.
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This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.
