Carrie Fisher - Life Quotes

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In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

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Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life—more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time—well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

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Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

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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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She had plenty of evidence that she had a good life. She just couldn't feel the life she saw she had. It was as though she had cancer of the perspective.

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Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

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I'm transparent about all this stuff because it's out there anyway, and if it's going to be out there anyway, I want my version. It was out there that I was in a mental hospital, it was out there that I was in rehab, and it was always Carrie Fisher's Tragic Life.

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplussed by the event that is my life.

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Suzanne only liked clothes she was about to buy. She knew someday she would find the exact right outfit that would make her life work. Maybe not her whole life, she thought, as she got back in bed, but at least the parts she had to dress for.

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No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

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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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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

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