Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?
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Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.
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My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
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And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
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I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
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Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
