Cressida Cowell Quotes
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.

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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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Enjoy life while it is happening.
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There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
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What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.