Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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I don't like fake people.
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Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
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One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.
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I believe in God. Spirit, I'm big time on that.
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In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.
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That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.
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I never get used to the response that people have toward me.
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
