Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

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• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Young
  • Islam

• But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Stronger

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.

  

  Marc Guggenheim

• I like all kinds of music. I hope you do, too.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Music
  • Hope

• There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • People
  • Money
  • Competition

• Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Up
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • Dad
  • Mom

• There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

  

  Patty Smyth

• I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Believe
  • Player

• From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Style

• It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Girl

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • School
  • Truth
  • High

• Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy

• I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Real
  • May
  • Black

• I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Writing