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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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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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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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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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
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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.
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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.
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
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Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
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Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.
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There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.
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I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
