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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: December 27
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Carrie Frances Fisher
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So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.
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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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The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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My mother is an immensely powerful woman.
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There is no point at which you can say, Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.
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My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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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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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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