Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I'm fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that's more left, and on some issues it might be more right.
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I am married to work.
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My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
