Cecelia Ahern Quotes

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Car
  • Luxury

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Slow

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Mother
  • Famous

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Believe
  • Win
  • First

• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Good
  • Child

• It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • World
  • Revolution

• People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • People

• Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Death

• It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Lost

• I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Long
  • Fly

• The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • Work
  • Done

• People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Believe
  • Storyteller