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I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

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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I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
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Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .
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Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
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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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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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I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
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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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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'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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You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.
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You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
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I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
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...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
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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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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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I guess I was popular in high school.
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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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Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
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You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly -Baby Carlyle
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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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