Cressida Cowell Quotes
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 kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
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Five more times in the succeeding pages of his penciled petition Gideon spoke of the right to counsel. To try a poor man for a felony without giving him a lawyer, he said, was to deprive him of the due process of law.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.
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This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
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Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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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.
