Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver -
I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
Orson Welles -
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben -
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
Flip Wilson -
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
Gary Hamel -
This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.
Tanith Lee -
The paranormal bad boy is usually a fiercely loyal partner for the heroine. Once his sights are set on her, he doesn't notice other women, and he's utterly unconcerned with what anyone else thinks of his choice.
Jeaniene Frost
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
Jimmy Swaggart -
I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
Jason Reitman -
I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
Kirstie Alley -
I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
Lee Unkrich -
Finn Jones, me and him hang out a lot.
Alfie Allen -
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
Marcus du Sautoy
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Laila (at fourteen years): What would your mother say when she saw you smoke?
Khaled Hosseini -
Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.
Peter Maurer -
I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
G. Willow Wilson -
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
Mark Helprin -
I just admire my mother very much.
Carrie Fisher