Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
-
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
-
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
-
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
-
My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
-
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
-
I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
-
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
-
I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
-
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
-
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
-
People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
-
Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
-
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
-
My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.
-
Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
-
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
-
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
-
There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!
-
I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
-
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
-
Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.
-
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
-
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
