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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My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.
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I would say we had two goals when doing this CD. The first goal is to introduce people who have never seen the show before to the best comics that are on the show. And goal number two is to introduce people that they never heard of before and give you a bit more flavor of what the show is actually like. And those goals are very much in line with the philosophy of the show from the very beginning. It's the very best people who are out there.
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You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
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If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
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The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.
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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.
