Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Carrie Fisher

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 21, 1956

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

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Instant gratification takes too long.

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If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

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I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

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Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

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Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

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The manic end of is a lot of fun.

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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

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It can't hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don't have to take their advice, but let them share their version of solutions to life's difficulties. Good or bad - it could be interesting.

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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

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What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

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Writing is a very calming thing for me.

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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

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

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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

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