Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  

  Walter Winchell
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• Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

  

  Kate Fox
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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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  • Time

• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  

  Mario Balotelli
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• Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'

  

  Elvis Mitchell
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• When we did 'Endgame,' we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for 'Gossip Girl' and things like that, where, as an actress, you're required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It's a presentation of your birthday-suit self.

  

  Betty Gilpin
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• Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'

  

  Jay McInerney
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• I grew up watching 'Gossip Girl' and 'The O.C.,' and I looked up to Blair Waldorf and Summer Roberts.

  

  Camila Mendes
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• Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
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• The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

  

  Boo Weekley
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• I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

  

  Blake Lively
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• People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
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• Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  

  George Eliot
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• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
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• "It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. "Exactly, my lord."

  

  Lois McMaster
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• Even things that are true can be proved.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• The first hundred thousand dollars – that was hard to get; but afterward it was easy to make more.

  

  John Jacob Astor

• I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
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