Cecelia Ahern Quotes
the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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We never do the same set twice.
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I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
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I don't want to retire. I still want to play.
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the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.
