Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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I'm not big on the closet.
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
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I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.
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Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
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Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.
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Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.
