Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
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I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.
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When I posted the 8,500 words on what Twitter should be, I wanted to make clear this wasn't a vision statement for the future. What was so frustrating about it is that's what it should've been already.
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Be kind to yourself.
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I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.
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I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
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I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
