Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.
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Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
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Deception is everywhere.
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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'Laguna Beach' was definitely not as manufactured as 'The Hills' was for me. 'Laguna Beach' was more putting us in situations where we normally wouldn't be in or hanging out with people we wouldn't necessarily hang out with.
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.
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Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
