Quotes by Candace Bushnell

About Candace Bushnell:

Candace Bushnell is an American novelist and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.
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Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.

Candace Bushnell

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

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The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Candace Bushnell

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who’s in crisis?

Candace Bushnell

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

Candace Bushnell

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

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All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

Candace Bushnell

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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Don’t you ever get scared?” I ask. “Of what?” She says. “Of not being good enough.” “You mean at writing?” L’il asks. I nod. “What if I’m the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I’m fooling myself-“...

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Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a wr...

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Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

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The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

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Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and ...

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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Candace Bushnell

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong ...

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Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how its so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, "that it'? This is what everyone's been raving about?

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Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

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Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

Candace Bushnell

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Candace Bushnell

Author Bio

  • NameCandace Bushnell
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornDecember 1, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksCarrie Bradshaw