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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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
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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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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
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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 professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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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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If you’re fit now, take advantage of it. If you have a free hour, take advantage of it. If you have an idea now, take advantage of it. All those things are fleeting, and all those things are temporary.
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I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.
