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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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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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'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 would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.
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My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.
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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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I would love do a guest spot on 'Castle' because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
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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.
