Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

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• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dress

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Husband
  • Doing

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life

• Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Relationship

• The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

  

  David Suzuki

• People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Listening
  • Sex

• There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Style
  • Understanding
  • Period

• The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Silence

• More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • People
  • Death
  • Empathy

• I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Paris

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Music
  • She
  • Together

• 'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Society

• Since therefore, as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that external bodies are absolutely incapable of any degree of heat whatsoever?

  

  George Berkeley
  • Thinking
  • May

• I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Muster