Cecelia Ahern Quotes
I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
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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.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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.
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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.'
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
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Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.
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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.'
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I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
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But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.
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If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.
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You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
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The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
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I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
