Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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Time is long but life is short.
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He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.
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I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.
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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.
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As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
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I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.
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He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him.
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No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
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Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.
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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
