Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 30, 1981

Topics

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Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

Jim Rash

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There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.

John Boyega

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I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

John Hawkes

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If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

John Hickenlooper

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I'm a pretty strong person.

Robert Kraft

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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Andy Goldsworthy

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We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.

Tommy Ramone

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When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.

Lukas Forchhammer

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The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Liya Kebede

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It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people, even if they don't look like you and even though they may not be able to identify with a black male; they can still identify with what's happening to you.

Jay Ellis

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Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

Josh Hawley

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More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Dean Kamen

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