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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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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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 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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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.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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.
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.
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I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
