Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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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 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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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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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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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.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.
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'Eurovision' is a party. I've never said no to a party, so I'm not saying no to this.
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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
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That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.
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You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.
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My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
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We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
