Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Carrie Brownstein

• Moments
• Loneliness
• Underestimate
• Explaining
• Inexplicable

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• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • Prophet

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Experience
  • Often

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Driven

• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Success
  • Wish
  • Humility

• Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Speak
  • Bed

• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Perfect
  • Most
  • Which

• I'm very serious about acting.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Serious
  • Acting
  • Very

• If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • You
  • Down

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Up
  • Done

• Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Writing

• Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy - the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps - to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • American
  • Light
  • Moments

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• I don't think I am the type of person who thinks, 'I dunno. Things are getting on top of me.' It's not that I think I'm any different to most people. I always make a big effort, to fight with all my strength, make the best of a situation, and always want to win.

  

  Diego Costa
  • People
  • Different
  • Effort

• Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • People
  • Sports

• You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Moments
  • Loneliness
  • Underestimate