Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
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I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.
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I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
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And let me say this ahead of time, if someone dies in Psycho-Pass 2, it’s Ubukata Tow’s fault and not mine!
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Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
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I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
