Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.
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Them gas prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
