Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Support
  • Play
  • Listening

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• People like to see showdowns.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Like
  • See

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• Travel is stressful.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Travel

• I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

  

  James Randi
  • Popular

• In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  

  Fritz Todt

• When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

  

  Janet Echelman

• When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Comedy
  • Forever
  • Chicago

• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Guy

• My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • Writing

• I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Player
  • Vans
  • Van Halen

• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Thinking
  • War

• From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Feelings

• I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking