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 are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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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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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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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.
