Carrie Fisher: Quotes about thinking

Carrie Fisher was American actress, screenwriter and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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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.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“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.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“I’m a hick,” I recall saying to him. “No,” Harrison answered. “You think you’re less than you are. You’re a smart hick.” And then, “You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“"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?'”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."
Postcards from the Edge (1987)