Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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I'm not a party person.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
