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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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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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 was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
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Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.
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Take the time to match your application to the company and the role you're applying for. Even if it means you're sending out fewer applications overall, I think that can be really powerful.
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I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.
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For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.
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I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
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In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.
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When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
