Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1970

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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Andrew Lincoln

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I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

Robert Orben

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We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Roberto Goizueta

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Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

Rupi Kaur

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Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.

Joseph Abboud

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A lot of filmmakers hate testing movies. I love it because it's an audience medium. The biggest problem has been the prevalence of all these Internet sites. It's almost impossible to have a test screening without it leaking out on the Internet.

Jonathan Mostow

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The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.

Jorge Ramos

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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Arnold Palmer

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

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I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

Susan Minot

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I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.

Nonito Donaire

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