Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner -
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
K. Eric Drexler -
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass -
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
Fernando Pessoa -
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper -
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
David Byrne Talking Heads -
I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
Jamila Woods -
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
Chevy Chase -
I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.
Kenza Fourati -
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
Daphne Guinness -
No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.
James Mattis -
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
Anohni -
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
Leslie Fiedler -
I know that nobody can become a star without a team.
Persis Khambatta -
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Anne Tyler -
There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.
Kevin Costner -
Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.
Ariana Grande -
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
Carrie Fisher