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Candace Bushnell Quotes

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

Candace Bushnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 1, 1959

Topics

Time New York College Texas Go New

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Jillian Bell

Life Feel My Life Doing Old Naked

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Joan Rivers

Good Business Think You Look Where

Of course I've felt racism.

John David Washington

Racism Course Felt

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

Jennifer Aniston

Life Women Amazing Me My Life You

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

John Ross Bowie

Good People Think Born Timing Solid

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

Stephen Kinzer

History War Violence Long Beyond

My family didn't push me into the music industry; they just wanted me to do something I loved.

Sigrid

Family Music Me Loved Push Industry

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

Tom Rooney

Strength Leadership People Weakness

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Roxane Gay

Words Matter Position How Public

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Knowledge Creativity You Creating

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Judah Friedlander

Serious Director Might Favorite Paul

I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!

Jools Holland

Love Home Practice Me Writing Find