Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

Carrie Fisher

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• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Stand

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I think it's really important to live in the moment.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Important
  • Live
  • Moment

• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

  

  Livy
  • Guilty

• I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fall

• Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Job
  • Hope

• We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Business
  • Model
  • Shopping

• I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

  

  Cliff Curtis
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Wish

• Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've put some thought into the answer, and it can be boiled down one word: consequences. Well, maybe two words: consequences and characters. Or perhaps, consequences, characters, and the subconscious mind - above all the subconscious mind.

  

  Katharine Kerr
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt

• I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Player

• I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Work
  • Weird

• If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Country
  • Money

• I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Crazy
  • Find
  • Ageing

• Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

  

  James F. Amos

• I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Thinking
  • German
  • Germany

• Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Party
  • Hostage