Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

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• The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Looks

• I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Why
  • Rest

• Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Control
  • Ego
  • Artists

• It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Years

• Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Hate
  • Cool
  • Drugs

• I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Athlete
  • Tough

• The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Except
  • Holy Spirit
  • Fails

• The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Breath
  • Skin
  • Guitars

• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Miserable
  • Strangers

• The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mean
  • Phrases

• I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Helping

• To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)

  

  Yasutaka Tsutsui
  • Friends
  • Dream
  • Able

• All you have to do is be able to feel.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Feel
  • Able

• Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Think
  • Fall

• This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

  

  John Bevere
  • Fall
  • Care
  • Hurt

• I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
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