Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.
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What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?
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As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
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I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there.
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I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.
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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
