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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I'm a 40-year-old, and I have a 5-year-old kid. I don't want to be unhealthy. I want to be around for as long as I can.
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There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.
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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
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Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune.
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You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?
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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.
