Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Women are sacred.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
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I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it.
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At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
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Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky.
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The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.
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I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
