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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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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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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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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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
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We have to say yes to socialism - to the word and everything ... Medicare for all, ending student debt, a different approach to the war on terror, ending mass incarceration.
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My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.
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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.
