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Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
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I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.
Carrie Fisher
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My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.
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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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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
Carrie Fisher
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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
Carrie Fisher -
I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.
Carrie Fisher
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
Carrie Fisher -
Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
Carrie Fisher -
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
Carrie Fisher
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Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
Carrie Fisher