Candace Bushnell Quotes
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
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As for what motivates me to better myself, I would say the friends that I keep around me and also my family. They constantly keep me in check with their words and actions, knowingly and also unknowingly.
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In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
