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Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Cecelia Ahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Story Kind Try Turn Out

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Jimmy Nail

I Am Comfortable More Who Gradually

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

Jermaine Fowler

People Appreciated Kid Up Different

When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.

John Seabrook

Music Simple Process More Connect

It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you're talking.

John Tiffany

Me Think Walking Forest Talking You

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

Government Mafia Bank Out Improve

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Romo

Love Challenge World Someone You Go

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Tom Hiddleston

Humanity Want Virtue Reflect Own

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Tom Glazer

I Am Writing Career Sometimes Will

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Michael McCaul

Winning Strategy Defeat Need Policy

I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day.

Mira Sorvino

Day World Feel Every Day Living

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

Julia Child

Cooking Better Than Thinks

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Dick Bruna

Me Nothing Side Publishing Liked