Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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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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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I like to work.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
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It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.
