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 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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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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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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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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I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
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Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.
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I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
