Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
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I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work.
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Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
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The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
