Candace Bushnell Quotes
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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My father was a lawyer.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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I don't study; I create.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
