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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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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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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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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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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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.
