Gossip Quotes - Page 18

• I'm a typical college girl; I love to shop and gossip with my roommates about boys and whatnot.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Girl, Boys, College

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Effort, Rumor, Purpose

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Smart, Character

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Fun, Writing

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

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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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Hate, Writing

  "An Interview with Gossip Girl's Author". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Children, Teenager, Book

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• I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.

  Sophia Loren

  Nice, People, Atmosphere

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

  Tavis Smiley

  People, Victim, Be Careful

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm a human being just like you are. And I hurt and love just like everybody else, and people tend to forget that. I think I'm one of the friendliest celebrities around, because I'll stop to talk to anybody who recognizes me. I don't have a negative bone in my body. That's why I could care less about any gossip. It doesn't interest me. I'd rather sit down and write a song.

  Al B. Sure!

  Song, Hurt, Writing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Singing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

  Dreama Walker

  Girl, Real, Shoes

  "The Interpretation of Dreama". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

  Jessica Szohr

  Girl, People, Likes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words once spoken can never be recalled.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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• If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Wind, Want, Stuff

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

  James C. Scott

  Income, Speak, Property

  James C. Scott (1990). “Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Analysis

  "Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction No. 87". Interview with Darryl Pinckney, www.theparisreview.org. 1985.

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, People, Musician

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• She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.

  Adam Levine

  Country, Teenager, Mean

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• Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

  Adam Levine

  Eye, Men, Media

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• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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