Carrie Fisher: What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?

The question

What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?

Originally asked

Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

Vox used this exact prompt throughout its named 9 Questions series on intellectual habits.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Carrie Fisher

Actor and writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

New York.

Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗

Others on this question

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist and essayist

Well, again, getting back to Nietzsche’s statement, as a person of deep faith, I obviously believe in something in the end. I don’t know what it is, but it’s a great big something.

Recorded Christopher Kemp, Interview, Salon, 12 December 2001 source ↗

Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

Yeah, there were a lot of brave people who stood up. Then, you know, it cost Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and the three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and Viola Liuzza and a lot of the others their lives, but they were on the right side of history, and they believed if they made this sacrifice that it would work out. And whenever I get discouraged about everything they stood against rising up again, I realize there just are no public, or permanent, victories. You have to keep fighting for freedom.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter

Transcendental Meditation, it’s obviously the most important thing to do day in and day out. Transcending is the key to a better and better life, and this idea is catching on more and more in the world.

Recorded Asaad Saad, Maharishi University of Management commencement Q&A, TIME, 27 June 2016 source ↗

Carlos Slim Helú Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil