Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.
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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
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Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
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I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.
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Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
