Cressida Cowell Quotes
The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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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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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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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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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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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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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.
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Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.
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I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
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I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
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The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.
