Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Music

• In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

  

  Christen Press
  • Time
  • Player

• Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Trump

• I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Brain

• Some people kind of are afraid of me.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People

• I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

  

  Dylan Minnette

• When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Work
  • Game
  • Health

• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mountain

• We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

  

  Albio Sires
  • Real
  • America
  • Health

• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Great

• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  

  Brock Yates

• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Good

• The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Model

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

  John Eaton
  • Drama
  • Greek

• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I sing because I love it. People may come to my shows because they are curious about 'Wonder Woman' but I hope they return because they enjoy my singing.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • People
  • May
  • Hope

• I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Important
  • Easy
  • Missing

• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Missing
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