Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

Carrie Brownstein

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• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• It's nice to be needed.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Nice
  • Needed

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Rest
  • Treat

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Job
  • Think

• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Building
  • Fish
  • Heat

• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Kid

• The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Political
  • Military

• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Health
  • Morality

• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.

  

  Cole Porter

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Engagement

• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Practice
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Heaven
  • Steps
  • Pilgrim

• It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Writing
  • Sometimes