Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano -
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
D. A. Carson -
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
Gagan Narang
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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
Yuvraj Singh -
My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
Kahlil Gibran -
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
Frank Sinatra -
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Clayton Christensen -
I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.
Marion Cotillard -
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
Arne Duncan
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I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.
Katie Taylor -
Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
Eric Dickerson -
I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.
Jens Lekman -
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Ken Burns -
Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.
Jessie Buckley -
If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
Darryl Glenn
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I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.
Mawra Hocane -
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
Lauren DeStefano -
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.
Ryan Guzman -
Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.
Kathleen H. Hughes -
If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
Carrie Fisher