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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

Cecily von Ziegesar

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Cecily von Ziegesar
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 27
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New York City
New York
Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar
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Everything
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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.
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I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
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When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?
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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!
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You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly -Baby Carlyle
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My high school wasn't a big public school it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.
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It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.
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...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
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I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
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Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
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Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.
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oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
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I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.
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I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
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You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, Look at him! and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.
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My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
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Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
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