Sarah Jessica Parker

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A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Easy
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I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Mind
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The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Snow
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When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Giving Up
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It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: People
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I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Children
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For the last ten years or more, I've really been making shopping decisions based on, "Is that what I want to wear forever?" I tend to not have these quick one - night stands or affairs with fashion, because it never suits me anyway. I tend to shop, specifically with heels or shoes, for things that I think, "Yeah, this is a long - term relationship.".
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Fashion
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I feel like you have to be so precise in what you are going to say, or you can be hammered if you say it the wrong way. That part makes feel bummed out because sometimes these things can take a while to figure out. Different people formulate things in different ways and have different processes. I feel like let's just take a deep breath and not be so perfectionistic about it all.
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Collection: People
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Dream
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Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Girlfriend
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James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Mom
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I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Good Love
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Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Fashion
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I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Beautiful
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I think women should have what they determine to be a staple in their closet, because who's to say that my staple is someone else's staple? I'm this tall, and I live in this city, and I have to walk the kids to school, and I don't tend to drive as much - my life requirements are radically different than yours or hers or his. Staples are: What do you need? And then, what do you want? "Need" comes first, typically; "want" gets taken care of occasionally.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Taken
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I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Shoes
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I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Careers
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People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Wind
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It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: People
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I don't put pictures of my children on, rarely, I think I've done it twice? I'm thoughtful about that, because I don't think you can get it back, and I don't think it's fair to people to try to convey a desire to maintain some privacy and then share pictures and expect that somebody else won't want the same ability.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Children
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I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Opportunity
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I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Media
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I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Instagram
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I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Play
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I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Sex
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What you think you know versus what you actually learn.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Thinking
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I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Ironic
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I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Kissing
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I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Jobs
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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Art
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We're all separate and individual people.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: People
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As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Helping
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I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Flower
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I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It's the lack of critical thinking. It's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Mean
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I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Thinking
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The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Mother
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~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Mom
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I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Honestly
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The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Positive
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Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Moving
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Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Children
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My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Time
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I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Feel Better
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I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Jobs
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I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Singing
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Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Drinking
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I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Regret
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I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Looks
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People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: People