Cressida Cowell Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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I hope to be viewed and judged first and foremost by my accomplishments and capabilities as a leader - regardless of my gender.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
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A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.
