Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'
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I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
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Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.
