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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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
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It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
