Cressida Cowell Quotes
There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination
