Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.
