Cecelia Ahern Quotes
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.
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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
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I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.
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Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.
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The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
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When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.
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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
