Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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It's not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it'll bring us more wins.
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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
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The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
