Cressida Cowell Quotes
Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.
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I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
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So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
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Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
