Cressida Cowell Quotes
I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.
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I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
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Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.
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The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
