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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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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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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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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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 even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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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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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.
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A lot of people thought I was gay.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
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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.
