Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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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.
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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
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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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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.
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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.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.