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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The only way my mother's beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it's never going to happen.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
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I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
