Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

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• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

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• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

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• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

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• I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.

  

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• Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

  

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• This guy Edward Snowden was a patriot. He believed very strongly in his beliefs and what he was doing for his country. So it was easy to tap into that and go, "OK, this is what this guy believes in."

  

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• I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
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  • Care