Fran Lebowitz Quotes
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
