Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I always played to win.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!
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Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.
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Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.
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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
