Candace Parker quote: "It was just 1-on-1 with me and her, and I knew I had the height advantage over her, so I just took it and shot over her. Fortunately it went in."

I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am...
CANDACE PARKER

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
CANDACE PARKER

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and ne...
CANDACE PARKER

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
CANDACE PARKER

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER

You want your coach's blessing.
CANDACE PARKER

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn...
CANDACE PARKER

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
CANDACE PARKER

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We&...
CANDACE PARKER

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my...
CANDACE PARKER

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
CANDACE PARKER

My baby is the joy in my life.
CANDACE PARKER

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich...
CANDACE PARKER

For me, family has always come first.
CANDACE PARKER

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been i...
CANDACE PARKER

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, ...
CANDACE PARKER

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
CANDACE PARKER

You're measured by championships no matter what.
CANDACE PARKER

So you have to take the good with the bad.
CANDACE PARKER

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
CANDACE PARKER

For us, we were playing for postseason, for a No. 1 seed. We do things when we have to.
CANDACE PARKER

She hit some big shots. It seems like she's confident in her shot now.
CANDACE PARKER

I've only dunked in one game. I don't want that to be my identity. I want to be known for an all-aro...
CANDACE PARKER

We just looked like we were uninspired. (At halftime), we got on each other.
CANDACE PARKER

Last year, I was sidelined with my knee injury. To finally get here and play was amazing.
CANDACE PARKER

We were never worried about the game or anything like that. We stayed calm.
CANDACE PARKER

I really wasn't thinking about it. I was thinking attack. I took off too far. I just missed a dunk.
CANDACE PARKER

Coach told me to dribble some time off, then we went into our isolation play. I knew they would not ...
CANDACE PARKER

I take away from this experience a lot of different things. I learned from a lot of great veterans a...
CANDACE PARKER

We were having fun just playing, moving the ball, running in transition, and that's when we were at ...
CANDACE PARKER

She anchors our defense and our offense. She runs the show. We've held it down while she's gone, but...
CANDACE PARKER

It's a relief to finally do it and get it over with.
CANDACE PARKER

I just went up and did it. I didn't really think about it.
CANDACE PARKER

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historic...
CANDACE CAMP

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab...
CANDACE CAMP

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through lif...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - mor...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It somet...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contem...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandelie...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't hav...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any edi...
CANDACE CAMP

'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and i...
CANDACE CAMP

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. Th...
CANDACE CAMP

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

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

Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all...
CANDACE KITA

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I ha...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?
CANDACE BUSHNELL

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for wome...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I cor...
CANDACE KNOEBEL

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
CANDACE CAMERON

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.
CANDACE CAMERON

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
CANDACE CAMERON

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
CANDACE CAMERON

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good e...
CANDACE CAMERON

It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you se...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Sex and the City to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success i...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

[As might befit a Bushnell character, she had it both ways.] I'm lucky. They send me the tapes, ... ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

We take their suggestions very seriously. We do all we can to implement what they say.
CANDACE SMITH

It's always something coming out of O'Hare.
CANDACE SMITH

That's mainly because since this orange level, we've had officers working extended hours ? seven day...
CANDACE SMITH

The big question is looking at the cost of all this. Is it worth making the changes or retiring old ...
CANDACE SMITH

We have a problem right now with people blocking the doors when people are trying get in and really ...
CANDACE SMITH

We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we contin...
CANDACE SMITH

It's really pretty in the evening with the light coming in the windows,
CANDACE SMITH

A Passion for Piedmont' is not just a fund-raiser; it's an Italian-style extravaganza.
CANDACE SMITH

Every time the cost of fuel goes up 10 cents a gallon it costs us $1.3 million.
CANDACE SMITH

Every time the cost of fuel goes up ten cents a gallon it costs us $1.3 million.
CANDACE SMITH

We should be seeing the results of that in the next couple of years.
CANDACE MILLINGTON

We did expect that and are aware of the school's limited facilities. Superintendent Norris has made ...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

It's another set of eyes, because we are all working together. We're not leaving it up to any single...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

Students are pretty forthcoming here. We would investigate any complaint should it come forward, but...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

We have a lot invested in our teachers. For us it would be a huge loss.
CANDACE MILLINGTON

I went through that before.
CANDACE MILLINGTON

I've seen changes in our teachers and in their motivation, through more relevant lesson plans, asses...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

These are excellent recommendations. It documents a continuous improvement planning process that val...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

Bumping is really demoralizing for our teachers. If we lose all this ... student achievement will go...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

We are developing a four-year plan to retool the department and design a system to address every stu...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

One of the things that makes Youth Pride Day great is that they can be who they are and not get pres...
CANDACE GINGRICH

It's good for us to be able to talk to the folks that we're working for.
CANDACE GINGRICH

They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constit...
CANDACE GINGRICH

In addition to those one million gay Republicans reported to have voted for Bush, we are talking abo...
CANDACE GINGRICH

This is a hate crime and should be investigated as a hate crime.
CANDACE GINGRICH

The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir
CANDACE GINGRICH

A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate
CANDACE GINGRICH

the falling poll numbers, on the deficit and the lack of jobs that have been produced.
CANDACE GINGRICH

Lots of business opportunities come out of tragedy. It's the capitalist way of life. I think the a m...
CANDACE CORLETT

Retailers get it, they understand the value of being a good citizen.
CANDACE CORLETT

I think everyone expected an explosion the last time and went overboard. Everybody way overstocked.
CANDACE CORLETT

This sector is having a very, very hard time competing with Wal-Mart. If grocery chains keep focusin...
CANDACE CORLETT

The clinics fit consumer's lifestyles, bringing the service to the shopper. Consumers are responding...
CANDACE CORLETT

Expanding for big box store is a challenge, especially in the Northeast. Therefore, retailers will h...
CANDACE CORLETT

Being just another supermarket isn't going to cut it. Food Lion's new Bloom stores are competitive b...
CANDACE CORLETT

Being just another supermarket isn't going to cut it, ... Food Lion's new Bloom stores are competiti...
CANDACE CORLETT

You can't treat apparel like underwear and socks, especially if it is fashionable clothing. You've g...
CANDACE CORLETT

The modern grocer needs to stop blaming Wal-Mart and focus on improving the shopping experience.
CANDACE CORLETT

The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.
CANDACE COMBS

I know I can do it now and I'm enjoying it. I'm starting to take ownership of the course. I feel lik...
CANDACE COMBS

I don't think there are any words I could come up with immediately for what that would mean.
CANDACE COMBS

Times have changed. The world has changed around us. It's a lot more acceptable.
CANDACE COMBS

One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off t...
CANDACE KITA

What we are doing there is trying to remove it from that source. We have our ground water treatment ...
CANDACE GIBSON

Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions ...
CANDACE PERT

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to da...
CANDACE KITA

In the last three or four years, the real estate market has been real robust. The most robust years ...
CANDACE ADAMS

'A Passion for Piedmont' is not just a fund-raiser; it's an Italian-style extravaganza.
CANDACE SMITH

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels,
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You’re a thousand beautifully broken pieces, welded together again. Made stronger. More resilient.
CANDACE KNOEBEL

What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successfu...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was alwa...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single ges...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think we came out a little scared. We just weren't hustling on defense.
CANDACE NORVILLE

We took advantage of opportunities and became aggressive, and we really hustled.
CANDACE KIMMETT

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

This is an age group that has been ignored by most retailers, manufacturers and advertisers. This gr...
CANDACE CORLETT

More than just service, it's the respect, rapport, ambience that engages customers so that price bec...
CANDACE CORLETT

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

A feeling sparked in your mind will translate as a peptide being released somewhere. Peptides regula...
CANDACE PERT

I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect ...
CANDACE KITA

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Lipstick Jungle: A Novel,
CANDACE BUSHNELL

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power,
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Lipstick Jungle.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

[Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Service with respect has become the foundation on which store loyalty stands. Women want bargains, t...
CANDACE CORLETT

The clothes of that era are all about the fabric and the lay of the fabric, and the body was inside ...
CANDACE CORLETT

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

Better alone than badly accompanied.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anythin...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-fi...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

..he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I don't know. There are so many beautiful girls around, that after a while you start looking for som...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I didn't want it to be this way."
"Yes, you did," she said, "because it is."
"I just want...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't h...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I wouldn't be in shallow relationships, so I do nothing. I have no sex and no romance. Who needs it....
CANDACE BUSHNELL

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can ma...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It really has to catch their eye. It's not about being inexpensive. It's about having emotional valu...
CANDACE CORLETT

The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to re...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who wou...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The tornadoes caused such comprehensive damage in such an expansive area that I'm sure more counties...
CANDACE ADAMS

(We have) seven strong returning players with much experience and four new additional players to com...
CANDACE KIMMETT

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sar...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The subjects are math, phonics, language arts, science, art, music and physical education, and histo...
CANDACE CRANDALL

Maybe the future isn't so bright. There's a lot of comfort in wrapping ourselves in a simpler time, ...
CANDACE CORLETT

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Unless Wal-Mart takes fashion and puts it on a pedestal which shouts 'Come and look at me!', this en...
CANDACE CORLETT

It's become embedded in the culture that everyone is entitled to a little bit of luxury.
CANDACE CORLETT

The coach took me out early on. He said I was playing too emotionally. I found my rhythm later on in...
CANDACE NORVILLE

Alek is the antithesis of what the media have defined as beauty. She has really opened up the way fo...
CANDACE MATTHEWS

That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It was just 1-on-1 with me and her, and I knew I had the height advantage over her, so I just took it and shot over her. Fortunately it went in.

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It was just 1-on-1 with me and her, and I knew I had the height advantage over her, so I just took it and shot over her. Fortunately it went in.

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