Candace Bushnell Quotes

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Never

• I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writer

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Reading

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• Netflix is something I watch.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Something
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan

• I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Life
  • Friend

• In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Life
  • Men
  • School

• I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

  

  Dean Jones
  • Family
  • Community
  • Justice

• The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women