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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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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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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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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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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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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Some things a lady doesn't tell.
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Love is woven into the very fabric of our being.
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All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
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Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.
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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.
