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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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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"If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the martyr of the people."[
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Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.
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Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.
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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.
