Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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Justice is revenge.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
