Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
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What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
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At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.
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I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
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It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.
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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like to be an actor. When there is a good script, I would like to be both a director and an actor. The switch is very natural, not intentional.
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I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
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My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.
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The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
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We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole 'free' issue. The television industry doesn't have it, the movie industry doesn't have it, but the record industry has it.
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
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I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.
