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Carrie Fisher
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: December 27
Actress
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Film Producer
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Carrie Frances Fisher
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
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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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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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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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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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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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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 get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
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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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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
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I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.
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Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.
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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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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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