Candace Bushnell Quotes
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
