Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.
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To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
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There's just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there's something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you're usually going to have a good time.
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There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.
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The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM. … Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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When you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto, you don't know what it's like to be poor.
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
