Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
