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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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
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The essence of good government is trust.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
