Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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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.
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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.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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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.
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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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.
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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.
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What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.
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If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.
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It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
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We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
