Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.
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When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.
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I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
