Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.
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Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
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Money is there to put food on the table and make sure your family is cared for. Anything beyond that can be argued as extraneous.
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Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
