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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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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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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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
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It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.
