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.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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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.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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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.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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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.
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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.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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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.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
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When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.
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Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
