Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
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I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
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You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
