Cressida Cowell Quotes
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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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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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
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There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Often the 'lead' of a classical song will have something really cool to its melody that - even though it might be a violin or something doing it in the song - I end up wanting to try something like that with my voice.
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... in that quiet gentle voice, as sweetly pure as the stab of an icicle.
