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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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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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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
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A comfortable quiet had settled between them. A silence that was like newly fallen snow.
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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
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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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Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavior.
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Show me a child with a simple, happy uncomplicated childhood, and I'll show you Dan Quayle.
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Actors may know how to act... but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
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Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.
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His eyes... not only undressed you unblinkingly, but shaved your head, called your parents, and refused to refinance your house.
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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
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"That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."
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When I was just becoming conscious — around 13 — is when my parents' careers began to fade. And I saw what it did to them. Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.
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I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situation and then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion — a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions.
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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
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The fact that I can make somebody laugh at this stuff — it can be very cathartic. If you claim something, you can own it. But if you have it as a shameful secret, you're fucked; you're sitting in a room populated by elephants.
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Describing herself was Suzanne's way of being herself.
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I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
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As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could.
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I'm nervous — the extroverted version of not relaxed. You're tense — the introverted version.
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Born:
October 21, 1956
Died:
December 27, 2016
(aged 60)
Bio:
Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress and writer. She is known for her role as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Known for:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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