Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Cecelia Ahern

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • True
  • Honor

• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Future
  • Friend
  • Same

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• Lines 10–16

  

  W. H. Auden

• The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Rocky

• I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Up

• I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

  

  Patti Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • Father

• Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.

  

  Jason Day
  • motivation

• People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • People
  • Done
  • Creativity

• Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Understanding
  • Engagement

• I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

  

  Steve Perry
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Work

• I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Female

• The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Heaven
  • Bible
  • Sin

• After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Faces
  • Accepting