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

• When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.

  

  G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • School
  • Years
  • Lasts

• I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

  

  Todd English
  • Different
  • Feels
  • Cities

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Muster