Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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The stampede toward 'rational expectations' - widely thought to be a 'revolution,' though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium-derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.
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Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
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Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.
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You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
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I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.
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The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
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The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
