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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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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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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Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
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Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
