Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.
