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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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
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General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.
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A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.
