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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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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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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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
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But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.
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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.
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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
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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.
