Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
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I feel like any time you, as an actor, can be surrounded by other amazing actors, you can't do anything but grow.
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
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I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
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I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'
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Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
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Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
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She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.
