Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
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Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
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Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
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What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
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My grandfather so throughly considered cooking to be "women's work" that he wouldn't even enter the kitchen to get his own glass of water. My husband, born sixty-one years after my grandfather, shows his love by bringing me coffee every morning and whipping up chocolate-chip cookies for friends' birthday parties. I think it's fair to say that few young men these days feel less masculine for knowing their way around a kitchen.
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I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.
