Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Like

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Protest

• It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Interesting
  • Doing
  • Kanye

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Service
  • Habit
  • Start

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Want
  • Security
  • Retirement

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

  

  Barry Mann
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Lyrics

• If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Emotion
  • Experiences

• Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Passion
  • Vision
  • Innovation

• I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

  

  Ricky Williams

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Lies

• The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Statement

• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Talent

• Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Solutions