Cecelia Ahern Quotes
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Has every oyster a different taste?
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Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
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It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.
