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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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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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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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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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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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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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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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
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When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.
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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.
