Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Never
  • Extraordinary

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Saintly

• The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Persons

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Human
  • Persons
  • Own

• It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Power
  • Persons

• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Magic

• I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Lifestyle

• I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Happy
  • Persons
  • Forte

• I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Persons
  • Distance

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Relationship
  • Persons
  • Coming Out

• The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Gay
  • Stories

• People don't become gay, bisexual, pansexual, transexual. People just fall in love with another person.

  

  Calum Hood 5 Seconds of Summer
  • People
  • Fall
  • Gay

• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Man

• What use is it to study abstractly? You should find and solve some problem, that way you'll really learn.

  

  Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
  • Problem
  • Study
  • Learn

• That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Acting
  • Actors

• When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

  

  Noureddine Morceli
  • Mind
  • Race
  • Finish

• Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Stories
  • Persons
  • Extraordinary