Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
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It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
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When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
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I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
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Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.
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Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
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You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
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I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
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Youth is truth.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.
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All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.
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You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.
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I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
