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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When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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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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His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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With all the information we have, it's something that can be handled pretty simply, and he won't be out a very long time.
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The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
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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.
