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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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