Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
