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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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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I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.
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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
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It was the realisation of a lifelong ambition to be the MP for my home town. It was by no means the end of a journey, but rather the beginning of a new chapter both for me and for the people of Batley and Spen.
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My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.
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The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.
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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.
