Cressida Cowell Quotes

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mindset

• I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Summer

• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Simple

• With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Great
  • Death
  • Lost

• I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Aesthetic

• In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It's just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  

  Nelson Eddy
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!

  

  Lizzie Brochere
  • Work
  • American
  • Cool

• There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Jaws