Cressida Cowell Quotes
But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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I always look up to girls like Beyonce or Anna Kournikova. Girls who do something well but also look good. I think every girl loves to feel sexy and, sure, there's some creeps out there, but I'm putting myself out there. I guess I'm just working with what I have.
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My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
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My mother would take me to Tirumala right from when I was 7 years old. I used to go along with her every time.
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I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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Pretty smart piece of thinkware by all accounts: full Turing compliance; about as clever as you can make a machine before you have to start giving it human rights.
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I think more and more today there are two ways to enjoy shopping: the first is the discovery, the feeling of searching and finding, and shopping with the eyes too, using all the senses and enjoying the moment - what I call the "slow shopping" experience; and then the second, of course, is e-commerce, which is contrary to the first but as enjoyable.
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
