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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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 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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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 don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.
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I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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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.
