Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
Carrie Fisher
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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.
K. Eric Drexler
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
Patrick Swayze
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Fernando Pessoa
What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
Orson Scott Card
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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.
Edmund Phelps
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
David Byrne
Talking Heads
