Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.
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In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
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Death likes it when you play hard to get.
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Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
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I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
