Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Health

• I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Future

• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Danger
  • Divorce
  • Independence

• I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Seriously

• I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • May
  • Challenge

• I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Children
  • Daughter

• I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Never

• You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Mean