Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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We, as plus-size women, want the jewelry to fit like it was meant for us. Not like, OK, we're just going to add a couple links here to make it fit wider necks. I want jewelry that complements us.
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I couldn't have drawn it up any better.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.
