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Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Follow your instincts and do not let other people’s opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It’s like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I’m very lucky.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that’s just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m less Pollyanna now. That’s probably healthy.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody’s taken care of. I know I can’t sustain that level all the time, so I’m finding the proper balance and it’s made me infinitely happier.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody’s worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

We all live in a time where we’re supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

If I didn’t have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I wouldn’t know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m aware of people’s association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn’t dominate my thoughts all the time.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

– Sarah Jessica Parker

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