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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
Carrie Fisher
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I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
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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 have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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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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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.
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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
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I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.
Carrie Fisher