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 got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
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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.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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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.

  

  Omar Sharif
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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.

  

  Samantha Barks
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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.

  

  Fetty Wap
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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.

  

  Laura Ramsey
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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  • Show
  • Very

• 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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  • Great
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• We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

  

  E. Lockhart

• I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.'

  

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• 'No boy is worth your teenage years!.' 'For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.'

  

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  • Boy

• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Belief
  • Minds

• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Trying
  • May

• 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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  • Scene