Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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

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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

• People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren’t quite so simple.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Simple

• 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

• It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• 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

• And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Moments

• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  

  Max Weber
  • Men
  • Important
  • Power

• Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Decision
  • Advice
  • Term

• In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Today
  • Magic
  • Missing

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Missing
  • Deadline