Cecelia Ahern Quotes
You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
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I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.
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I keep my sisters on speed dial.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
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Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
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If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
