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 started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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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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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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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 a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
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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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I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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It is a wonderful but daunting task that has fallen on me to say few words by way of opening this Forum, the greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!) that has ever gathered on our planet. I want to try and voice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.
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It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.
