Cecelia Ahern Quotes
More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Affluence means influence.
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
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There's never enough time to do nothing!
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.
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More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
