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 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 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 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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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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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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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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When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!
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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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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.
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You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
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I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
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I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.
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For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.
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Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.
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Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
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Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of times people have favorite songs that are Motown songs that they didn't even know were Motown songs.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.
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You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.
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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
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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.
