Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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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.
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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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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Collecting is my passion.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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'And how are you?', said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)'Not very how', he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
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I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
