Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.
