Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Taken

• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Like
  • Generation
  • Forest

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I only want my work to make people happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Book
  • Like
  • Young

• The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Model
  • Celebrity

• Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Men

• In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • World

• I have no dream. I shall no longer speak of Madrid. They don't want me. This is not a problem. I move forward; I am well in Dortmund.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Dream

• If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I despise those prick actors who say, 'I was in character,' and 'I became the character,' and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Different
  • Way
  • Care

• Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
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