Cecelia Ahern Quotes

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Cecelia Ahern

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• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Ground
  • Cohesion

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Play
  • Characters

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Sorry

• No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Why
  • Training
  • Basketball

• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Different

• My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Lost

• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Girl
  • Late
  • Meets

• Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of doing - all the guys who are out here. I'm just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Professional
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Time
  • Running

• It was weird working with all of them - Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris. There's a sequence in the movie where myself and Jean-Claude Van Damme are running through this airport and there's this silhouette behind this big screen - it smashes, and there you see Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Bruce Willis all firing their weapons at me and Jean-Claude. It's kind of surreal when you think about it, the three '80s icons of action movies, unloading as many bullets as they could at us. It's pretty crazy.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Running

• You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Running