Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I like risky stuff.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
