Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Carrie Fisher

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• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Home
  • Small

• The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Two
  • Role
  • Role Models

• The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Long
  • Earth

• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Depression

• Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Wife
  • Fans
  • Asks

• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Why
  • Terrible
  • Flowers

• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • World
  • Success
  • Confidence

• Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • People
  • Animal

• You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Time
  • Sport
  • Worthwhile

• Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Up
  • American
  • Source

• I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Small
  • Library
  • Program

• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffering
  • Creating
  • Alleviation

• I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fashion
  • Face
  • Expression

• Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Work
  • Career

• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Difficult

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Ashamed
  • Ill
  • Surviving