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

• 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
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  • Fails
  • Holy Spirit

• 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

• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Looks
  • Witch

• To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

  

  Allison Glock
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  • Born
  • Expectations

• I'm always excited about my upcoming shows. I love what I do; I feel very lucky to be able to do what I do, and I never get tired of it. Every time I'm backstage before a show and I feel the murmur of the crowd, it's just incredibly exciting. And I consider myself very fortunate to be able to do this for a job. It's a great life.

  

  Brian Regan
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  • Able
  • Lucky

• And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Worry
  • Sick

• 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
  • Able
  • Crevice