Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
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I wanted to design clothes to help build confidence.
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My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.
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I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get out of there? Nobody else can. So it took some time. The struggle made me realize I didn't really want to be 'normal' anymore.
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Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.
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I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.
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Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.
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I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.
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I want to do something I feel like I can do.
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Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
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I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.
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Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have.
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I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
