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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Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.
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I suppose I've been interested in Abraham Lincoln for almost as long as I can remember. My first Lincoln book was the Classics Illustrated comic book version of the life of Lincoln, and with that, I was hooked.
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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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.
