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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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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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 always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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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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I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
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The officials in the garage do a great job.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
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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."
