Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
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A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
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Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.
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I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.
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When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
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All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
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I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.
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I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.
