Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

Carrie Brownstein

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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 son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I've always loved film more than theater.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Film
  • Loved

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• I encourage interoffice romance.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Together
  • Culture

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Power

• I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Up

• I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Wall
  • Thankful

• Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Art
  • Cutting
  • Meaningful

• You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Bad
  • Search

• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Business
  • Future
  • Fear

• I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Party

• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Thinking
  • Harmony
  • Overwhelming

• I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Inspired