Cecelia Ahern Quotes

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Cecelia Ahern

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• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Long
  • School
  • Performance

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
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• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Work
  • Creative
  • Same

• We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Violence

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Violence
  • Fight

• There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Dream
  • Action
  • Yourself

• Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Director
  • Keep
  • Contact

• In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Change
  • Humanity
  • Growth

• Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Made
  • Stand

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Lose

• It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • You
  • Idea

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother

• When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • War
  • Reality
  • Escape

• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • True
  • Feeling

• I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Fighting

• She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Judging
  • Debate