Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Scire mori sors prima viris, sed proxima cogi.
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I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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I was never part of the crowd.
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I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
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Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.
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Setbacks are just learning experiences.
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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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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
