Fran Lebowitz Quotes
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.
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I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.
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Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
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It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
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I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.
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Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
