Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Cecelia Ahern

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Why
  • Know
  • Question

• People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Want
  • Me
  • Son

• I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Hide

• I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Community
  • Kind
  • Confidence

• George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Work
  • Money
  • Together

• I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

  

  Marc Forster
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Bad
  • Age

• I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Political
  • Support
  • Anonymous

• It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • World
  • Art
  • Taken

• There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Writing
  • Night