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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.
Candace Bushnell
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Candace Bushnell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
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Carrie Bradshaw
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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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And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Funny always makes the bad things go away.
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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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The heart wants what the heart wants, she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. You'd think the heart would know better.
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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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It's always the people who don't want things who get them.
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Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
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She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.
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