Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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When 'Dynasty' was on, it was a huge deal when Diahann Carroll came on the show. That was groundbreaking.
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The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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It's not a movie about, 'My dad and I, we hated each other and then we came to know that we loved each other.' No. I loved my dad. He was a great guy. I just didn't know him as an adult.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
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I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
