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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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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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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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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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
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We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.
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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.
