Cecelia Ahern Quotes
When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.
