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.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• 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.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Crazy

• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Creativity
  • Therapy

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• 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.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Tennis

• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Want
  • Water
  • Basically

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• We want laws to be applied predictably.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Laws
  • Applied

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • See
  • More

• 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.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• 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.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Want
  • Being
  • Something

• But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Censorship

• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Want
  • Relationship

• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Policy

• Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Want
  • Facts
  • Stills

• Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Satisfaction
  • Leads

• You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Learn
  • Snow
  • Tension

• 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.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Want
  • Conventional