Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.
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Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
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Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.
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To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
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I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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One of my mantras is, 'Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.' I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
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I just want to try to hold this society and hold it together, so that they’re enjoying themselves together and appreciating the same things. I mean, we’re all part of the creation of God or whatever.
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Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
