Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Carrie Fisher

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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • English
  • Person

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • She
  • Mother

• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Admit

• But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Dad

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • History
  • Hurt
  • Patriotism

• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • History
  • Man
  • Old

• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Fear
  • Action

• I bear holy envy of the religious life of true nuns, called by the Holy Spirit to follow their vocations: giving good example and performing holy deeds for the glory of God in the highest […] and encouragement of devout souls desirous of walking along the path of perfect virtue. These nuns deserve to enjoy the virginal crown in Heaven

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • God
  • Glory
  • Vocations

• A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Know
  • To Be
  • Hungry

• Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Battle

• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Fame

• There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Ideas
  • Found
  • Cookies