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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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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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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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
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Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara
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I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.
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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.
