Candace Bushnell Quotes
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
