Cressida Cowell Quotes
If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
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If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.
