Cressida Cowell Quotes
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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I don't wish my career on anyone.
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Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.
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And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
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I wish, I wish I wish’ wished Wish
