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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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My acting gives me my self-worth.
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As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
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In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
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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!
