Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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We're excited to bring in a veteran player like Sam who brings nine years of playoff experience and two championships, ... The addition of Sam strengthens our backcourt. He's a big-time scorer who is one of the best in the league when it comes to taking and making the big shot in the closing moments of a ballgame.
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Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
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There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
