Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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Television was essentially my college.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
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Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
