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 I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
