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

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

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Work

• We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Live
  • American
  • Society

• Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lyrics

• The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • May
  • Mean
  • Abuse

• I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Long
  • Running
  • Games

• As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Goodbye

• 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