Cressida Cowell Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
