Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Purpose
  • Fact
  • Obscure

• We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Career
  • Single
  • Influence

• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • High
  • Pretty

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • You
  • Feeling

• I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Past
  • Stories
  • Form

• I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • Humans