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IT's understandable that after playing a character for a prolonged period of time similarities can occur - as Sarah Jessica Parker, who played Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City for six years, can attest.
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"I think in many ways I'm like Carrie because I would much prefer to be interviewing you, for instance," she told an E! reporter."I'm very curious about other people, and that's why I like the subway.Because I can just watch people."
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When it comes to the wardrobe department however, a definitive line is drawn between the passions of the two - despite the fact that Parker is a style inspiration in her own right and runsa successful footwear business of her own.
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"I think there's not a lot about Carrie that is actually similar to my life," she asserted."Our choices have been so radically different.There are certain kinds of pillars that fundamentally are different.I like clothing, but I don't have anywhere near a fevered relationship that she does."
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