Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
Zig Ziglar -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde -
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies -
It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
I've always liked new writing.
Imelda Staunton -
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.
Babasaheb
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams -
So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.
Albert Camus -
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
Anatole France -
I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
Jason Sudeikis -
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
Alex Berenson
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Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.
Alicia Vikander -
The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
Jamie Wyeth -
Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
Jeff Giles -
I don't really do stand-up.
Jessica Williams -
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. -
With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.
William Whewell -
What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
Orson Scott Card -
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
David Bowie -
Make mistakes, make shit break. Those are the little things you remember. No-one remembers a smooth gig.
Paul Mullen The Automatic -
Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.
Cecelia Ahern