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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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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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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You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
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I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
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I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
