Cressida Cowell Quotes
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.
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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.
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There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.
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Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
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There were dragons when I was a boy.
