Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.
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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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If I had an explanation, I would give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end tonight. During the season, you will have games like this.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.
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High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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When the family has been brought into its natural order, the individual can leave it behind him while still feeling the strength of his family supporting him. Only when the connection to his family is acknowledged, and the person's responsibility seen clearly and then distributed, can the individual feel unburdened and go about his personal affairs without anything from the past weighing him down or holding him back.
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Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
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Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.
