Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.
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I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.
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People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
