Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Trust

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Imagination
  • Person
  • Gun

• I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Love
  • Book
  • Night

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Me
  • Day
  • New York

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Person

• Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?

  

  Alison Owen
  • Work

• I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

  

  Marie Windsor

• The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Comedy

• I play on all the consoles, but Xbox, mostly. I'm versatile, though, so whatever's going on, I'll take care of it.

  

  Jason Kidd

• No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Life

• Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Good
  • Important

• I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Up
  • City

• For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Me

• The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Power

• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Character
  • Wonderful