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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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
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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 guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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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.
