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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With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?
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I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
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Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
