Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
 
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	If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.   
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	Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.   
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	I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.   
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	I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.   
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	We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.   
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	Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.   
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	I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.   
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	I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.   
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	I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.   
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	I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.   
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	I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.   
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	The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.   
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	I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.   
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	I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.   
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	My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.   
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	People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.   
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	Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.   
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	Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.   
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	A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.   
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	Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.   
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	The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.   
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	I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.   
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	There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.   
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	People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					