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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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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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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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
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New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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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.
