Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
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TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
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It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.
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People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'
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I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
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Stephan Arkadievich chose neither his attitudes nor his opinions, no, the attitudes and opinions came to him on their own, just as he chose neither the style of his hat nor of his coats but got what people were wearing.
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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I've never had vocal training. No one could ever say that they helped me carve what my voice has become. It's just been more of self-training: me just continuously going into the studio every night and trying out different beats.
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A poor gasping, blushing creature, with trembling knees and twitching hands, is a painful sight to every one, and if it cannot cure itself, the sooner it goes and hangs itself the better.
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If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
