Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

Carrie Brownstein

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• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Like
  • Wise
  • Looked

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Country
  • King

• 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • May
  • Movie

• I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • People
  • High
  • Responsibility

• The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.

  

  Alex Stamos

• What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

  

  Kenneth Branagh

• I have no detectable hair style.

  

  David Spade
  • Style
  • Hair

• I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Time
  • Done
  • Shoes

• My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Art
  • Dad

• Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.

  

  John Chilcot
  • Planning

• I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

  

  Peter Hain
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

  

  Leigh Steinberg

• When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Music
  • Writing

• I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Chinese

• I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Red

• Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Band

• I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Band

• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Band

• The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Band
  • Stuck
  • Rings