Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.
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As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
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Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
