Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.
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A lot of who I am is in the work I do.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
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Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
