Cressida Cowell Quotes
The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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Accept loss forever.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.
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The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
