Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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We want you to pay attention.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.
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My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
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I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
