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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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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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
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I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.
