Cecelie Berry (Cecelie S. Berry) Quotes
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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When all else fails...be a rockstar
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I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?
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Deserve your dream.
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From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.
