Candace Bushnell Quotes
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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I knew myself. I knew where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be the very best I could be in whatever I pursued.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
