I feel more mature than most people my age. – Leighton Meester
The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You cant just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you dont know them. Its the same thing with a relationship. – Leighton Meester
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, its much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing. – Leighton Meester
I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, I really want to be part of that, but not realizing what that was. – Leighton Meester
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl