Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'
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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
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One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
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If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
