Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.
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I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
