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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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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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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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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Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
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Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
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No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.
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I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
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I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
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Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work. There are more points of entry for them to complain to.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
