Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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I don't need to impress children.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
