Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow from different cultures and different sounds, and to be eclectic. And that's great in terms of dynamics, but it also tends to not have that torpedo and fire running through it. If you're spreading yourself out across the globe, you're also not emphasizing a singular point, which I think great rock music has always done.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
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I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
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When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
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You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.
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A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.
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I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow from different cultures and different sounds, and to be eclectic. And that's great in terms of dynamics, but it also tends to not have that torpedo and fire running through it. If you're spreading yourself out across the globe, you're also not emphasizing a singular point, which I think great rock music has always done.
