Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Cover-ups and deception are the nature of this society. Without lies it won’t exist.
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Everyone says I'm exploiting the kids, but they haven't even seen one episode.
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In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.
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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
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I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
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I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
