Candace Bushnell Quotes

I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design me a house. I'd love to be in the countryside when I'm older.

One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.

The country life near Manchester I really love.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

I've got a great place, it's a country house.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.

My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

My mom is a country lady. She wants to be in the trees.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

I live out in the country in Scotland and know that if I close my eyes, I can recognise every sound.

Indiana is much, much, much slower than California, and I love it.

I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.