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Carrie Fisher: Youth and Beauty Aren't Accomplishments

Posted by $ nickursis 10 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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I admire the fact that she is not hiding in a corner and crying at these goobers. I really like her tweets back. Our society has taken the individual and lumped them up into pseudo clones of imagination. There are some women who have put in huge amounts of time and effort to "look good", but the fact CF is just accepting life as it happens should be just as ok. Being 58, I am with her 100% and find her stand for her individual interpretation of life laudable.

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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Whew. I was about one bottle of wine into my New Years Eve, and was wondering this morning what sort of foolishness my ramblings came out like last night.
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  • Posted by IndianaGary 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree. I thought your comment cogent, clear, and chuckle-worthy. There is nothing to apologize for. Except, perhaps, for ending a sentence with a preposition.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    some folks have it a lot harder than I do, and I feel for
    them ... I dated a woman who had been abused as a child,
    from which three distinct personalities developed. . she was
    either the precious little girl, the militant defender or
    the unifier in the middle. . I was the first ever to make love
    with the defender, and it was extraordinary. . she was
    so smart and so determined to pass on none of the negative
    stuff ... a very strong person, over all. -- j
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, her article reads like a train wreck. I would hope she could get some comfort from a 12 step program, it tends to make you focus on what and who you are and your own effect on others.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm finding I look for functional aesthetics in things man made, natural beauty in things made by nature and art as a successful fusion of the two. The "phrase it looks or seems wrong is one of the way senses tell us non-verbally one of our premises is incorrect."

    The explanation was lost on one of our ship's officers who felt her drawings of how things should be were more real than the items in the drawing. The Captain would wander by and ask, "Why is this changed what was wrong with it as previously done or set up? He was of the functional asethetic mind set and drew charts give our more functionally illiterates a clear understanding of the goal. The Mate wanted something to put on the wall in the office to impress visitors.
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  • Posted by illucio 10 years, 5 months ago
    She´s so right to. Someone memed her "Men don´t age better than women, they´re only allowed to age". Great statement.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Women who take care of themselves (not equal to "look good") as they age are attractive. I prefer athletic women to other types potentially called "beautiful". I was arguing in support of this preference, in a doofy-Darwin fashion, that this is a survival trait, seeking women who will support offspring that succeed physically.
    I really need to work on my delivery, at least in purely written word. Nothing is funny in explanation. Just proof the comedian is not ready for prime time.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do not understand your comment about Dorothy Hamell and T-Rex...can you explain?

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like both of those sayings, but really really like the second one. I am an aestheticist, and to 'want life to be art' is as good as a definition of that as I can find.

    Happy New Year, Brett.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    An excellent statement. I have heard "resentment is like a savings bond, the longer you keep it, the greater it matures".
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  • Posted by BrettRocketSci 10 years, 5 months ago
    I've read quite a lot of wisdom from Carrie Fisher! She also said "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." And, "I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art." That is a heroic sense of life we should all emulate!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Prior to American Graffiti and afterwards he was a master cabinetry maker and making top dollars. I read somewhere he continued as a way to relax form the pressure of movie making. I would assume...if he hasn't light sabered or band sawed his fingers off he's still making furniture.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would've liked her even better if she used a light saber like her twin brother. In the new episode (just saw two hrs ago) a girl/woman is the heroine, but not exactly the same in 1977. Still coming along. Harrison Ford sure does look better at 73 than Carrie at 59, but I suspect that has a lot to do with what he did and ate vs her in the last 30 years. Dorthy Hammel still looks damn good...but then again, I have a thing for women that have a good chance at outrunning a T-Rex. Survival trait!
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  • Posted by Stormi 10 years, 5 months ago
    Harrison Ford has held up so so, but he is still too liberal. How has his brain been applied all these years, or is it flabby? That to me is the question.
    Carrie Fisher has a good attitude and her looks have softened with age, a good look. At least she is not hyping some facial products, as does another actress, leaving out the multiple cosmetic surgeries and botox treatments in which she has indulged.
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  • Posted by xthinker88 10 years, 5 months ago
    She rocks! Awesome response.

    That said, I was a 16 year old nerd when Return of the Jedi premiered and I thought she looked great in that good bikini. :)
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  • Posted by Wnston 10 years, 5 months ago
    Heck, I'm 72 and I look less aged than Harrison Ford - sans hair.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 5 months ago
    First of all, she looks great for 58.
    Second, she has the right attitude -- very Leia-ish.
    Third, She's a good writer, which makes her multi-talented. Hey, Carrie -- you go, woman.
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