Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.
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Facebook is my life.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
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Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. This is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind.
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
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I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham.'
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
