Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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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.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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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.
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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.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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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!
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?
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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.
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I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
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The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
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I play on all the consoles, but Xbox, mostly. I'm versatile, though, so whatever's going on, I'll take care of it.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
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I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.
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The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
