Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
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Europe was the major surprise for the month.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
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Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.
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The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
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There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.
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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
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I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
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You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.
