Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

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• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Real
  • Thought
  • Wind

• You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Never
  • Loss

• We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Victory

• Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Nature
  • Falling
  • Bother

• I'm totally myself.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Myself
  • Totally

• I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Important
  • Right
  • Security

• So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Strive
  • Combat
  • Feast

• I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • Up

• When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • She
  • Girl
  • Nerd

• That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

  

  David Chang
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Remember
  • Leadership
  • Caring

• It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

  

  Pete Wilson
  • Help
  • High
  • Growth

• My life isn't always at risk, even if I'm in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn't necessarily mean being shot at all the time.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Different
  • Country
  • House

• Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

  

  Randy West
  • Money
  • Day
  • Serious

• Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Life
  • Experience

• I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Born
  • Fairness

• I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Mean