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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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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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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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.
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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.
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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.
