Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

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• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

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• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

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• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

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• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
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• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

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• Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

  

  Wang Jianlin
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• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
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• You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.

  

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• I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

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• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

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• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

  

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• From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

  

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• No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

  

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• Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

  

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• Chris and myself, some nights we're going to struggle and we're not going to be able to get it done. We need other guys to step up. When you get 31 from a guy off the bench, you're supposed to win that game.

  

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• Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

  

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• I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

  

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• When Nick At Nite is showing George Lopez, it's not doing what I'm thinking. But yes, I even write in the book about how MeTV went to Vince Gilligan and had him present an evening of his favorite television. So it can be done, but I think it can be done on a really large scale. The television of Dennis Potter, most of it hasn't been seen in this country. And that's just one example - it's a very obscure example. There's plenty of great TV out there. There's more crap - but there's great TV, too.

  

  David Bianculli
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• I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
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  • Littles
  • Scene