Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
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History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.
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I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.
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In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
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Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
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But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
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This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.
