Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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I'm a big Letterman fan.
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It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
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Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
