Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Carrie Fisher

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• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Night

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
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• My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Done

• Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Baby

• When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

  

  Alice Dellal
  • Thinking

• Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moving

• Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Tears
  • Prove

• Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

  

  Leonard Woolf
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Aim

• Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • House
  • Water
  • Rap

• I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking