Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
Carrie Fisher
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
Washed Out
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio Fonseca
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber
If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
J. C. Watts
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
Taylor Schilling
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
Ralph Adams Cram
Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
Yancy Butler
I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.
Stephen Sondheim
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
Walter Rauschenbusch
Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
Carrie Fisher