Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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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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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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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 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 used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
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I know that nobody can become a star without a team.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
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When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
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My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
