Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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.

Carrie Fisher

• Illness
• Seven
• Bipolar

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• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

  

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• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  

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• I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

  

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• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

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• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

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• If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.

  

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• This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

  

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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.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Illness
  • Seven
  • Bipolar