Cressida Cowell Quotes
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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Power to the peaceful.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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The world broke open like a big white egg.
