Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.
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Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
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I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
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Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
