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Fran Lebowitz Quotes

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1950

Topics

New York World Rest Enough You New

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

Passion Hope Time Myself Memory

Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.

Nature Happiness Business Job People

When you become an actor, at some point you look for something that brings you back to your roots. You find something that people around your neighborhood can relate to. People that you're close with can relate to.

People Roots You Look Back Find

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

Together People Think Clever Happen

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Money Rich Doing You Individual Get

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Strength People Team You Different

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

Life Childhood Imagination Weird Now

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Laughter Me Doing Games Hand Sight

I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?

Woman Think Comedy Doing You Jokes

The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

Success Best Parents House Buy Able

I don't go by brand names for directors.

Brand Go Names Directors

I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

Girl Me Feel Friends Relationships

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