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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Challenge
  • Motivated
  • Obstacles

• No state legislature ever built a great university.

  

  James E. Rogers
  • Great

• For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

  

  Dominic Chianese
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Uncle

• Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

  

  Joko Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Years
  • Ifs
  • Minutes

• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Secret
  • Destroy
  • Man's Being

• Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Balls
  • Maniac butcher
  • Hack away

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Mean