Cressida Cowell Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
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God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
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We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!
