Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Language

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.

  

  John Mayer
  • People
  • Comedy

• Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Live

• People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Life
  • Political
  • Sorry

• We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Know
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking

• If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Thinking
  • Area
  • Emissions

• Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Pray
  • Evidenced
  • Busyness

• With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes