Cecelia Ahern Quotes
I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
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I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.
