Cressida Cowell Quotes
You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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You have to be resilient.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
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I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.
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I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.
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Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.
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I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
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You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
