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
  • Except
  • Holy Spirit
  • Fails

• 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

• 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

• Everyone makes mistakes.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Mistakes

• I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

  

  Gene Sarazen
  • Reason
  • Golf
  • Able

• In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • World
  • Water
  • Able

• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

  

  Freya Stark
  • World
  • Art
  • Age

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• 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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  • Crevice