Candace Bushnell Quotes
Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
