Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
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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.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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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.
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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.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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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.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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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.
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It's nice to be needed.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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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.
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
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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.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!
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People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
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I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
