Candace Bushnell Quotes - Page 5

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  Candace Bushnell

  People, Stories, Remember

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• I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

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  Chance, Married, Good Chance

  "Candace Bushnell, ‘Sex And The City’ Author, Talks Divorce, Single Life". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

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  Jeans, Sweaters, Pairs

  "Candace Bushnell: ‘I Actually Don’t Shop Very Much’" by Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

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  Party, Europe, Gossip

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• 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

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  Air, Episodes, Jungle

  "‘The Carrie Diaries’ On The CW: Candace Bushnell, ‘Sex And The City’ Creator, On Carrie’s Backstory And The Boys Before Big". Interview by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

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  Writing, Should Have, Years

  "Candace Bushnell: New York is a city of energy vampires". Interview with Deborah Rivers, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2009.

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• The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

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  Sex, Real, Cities

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• Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

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  Confused, Choices, Fierce

  Candace Bushnell (2003). “Trading Up: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

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  Ambition, Expectations, Grace

  Candace Bushnell (2008). “One Fifth Avenue”, p.135, Hachette UK

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• I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

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  Guy, Wrong Guy, Pick Me

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• Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates

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  Baby, Soulmate, Men

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• What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

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  Princess, What If, Planets

  Candace Bushnell (2010). “The Carrie Diaries”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

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  Dream, Next, Firsts

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• If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

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  Men, Needs, Care

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• It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.

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  Girl, Scary, Without Friends

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• A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

  Candace Bushnell

  Animal, Fearless, Diaries

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• When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

  Candace Bushnell

  Writing, People, Who You Know

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• ... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

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  Memories, Issues, Space

  Candace Bushnell (2003). “Trading Up: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."

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  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

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  Country, Writing, House

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• Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

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  Ability

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• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

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  Sex, Thinking, Cities

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• Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

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  Patents, Prom, Bigs

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• Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

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  Twenties, Willing, What You Love

  "Candace Bushnell On Sex, Money, And Sarah Palin". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

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  Real, Rain, Sky

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