Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Carrie Fisher

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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.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • American
  • Together

• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• 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.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• 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.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Know
  • Dying
  • Bookstore

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Only

• 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.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Interesting

• Them gas prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Enemy
  • Fire

• I try to go to the gym. I either go on the rower or watch a TV show on the treadmill, and then I do some weight lifting.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Gym
  • Lifting

• Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • World
  • Important
  • She

• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • Proud
  • June

• I'm a firm believer that if you're nervous before you go into a scene, it means the scene is going to be good, and it means you're invested in making something special.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Good

• Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

  

  Alex Meraz
  • Help
  • Support
  • Charity

• My wife would probably tell you I'm quite a dark person all the time!

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Dark

• At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want - for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. (15 April 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Work
  • Worry

• I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Dark
  • Destination
  • Blazing