Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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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.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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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.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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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.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I'm totally myself.
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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?'
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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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.
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I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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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.
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There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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My favourite sites are all about web accessiblity, like Jakob Nielsen's site, but I'm afraid I've got quite utilitarian in my uses of the web. I buy things for friends and family in America on it. I find train times on it. I get a quick short article on a subject from it. I do not surf for fun much.
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Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
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Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I think if a Swiss watch can come to the country and have their own corporate stores, a Pakistani actor should come here and do a film here in India.
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I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
