Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Cecelia Ahern

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• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Important
  • Art
  • Society

• I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

  

  Gail Porter
  • Country
  • Cancer
  • Brave

• Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Early

• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happy
  • You
  • Successful

• I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Kindness

• I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Play
  • Wind
  • How

• My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Way
  • Me
  • Act

• Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Truth

• Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Home
  • Job
  • Ignore

• Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  

  Dominic West
  • Life
  • American

• For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Nice

• At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Nice
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Book

• Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Up
  • Women
  • Country

• God is just another artist, like me.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Artist
  • God Is

• Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Home
  • Father
  • Kind

• I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

  

  Cecelia Ahern