Candace Bushnell Quotes
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
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I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.
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Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
