Carrie Brownstein Quotes

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• I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Knowing, Half

  "Portlandia Brings Out the Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 06, 2012.

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• "We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Art, Names, Form

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Moving, Self

  " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.

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• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sound, Band, Four

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• I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life Is, Chaotic, Knows

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• The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sexy, Arms, Pounds

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• I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mustache, About Yourself

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• You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Loneliness, Way, Underestimate

  "Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Environmental, Contentment

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• [I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Growing Up, Hate, Shoes

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Hands, Years, Feelings

  "A Final Word From Carrie Brownstein". NPR "Monitor Mix" column by Carrie Brownstein, www.npr.org. October 6, 2010.

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• People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.

  Carrie Brownstein

  People, Fabric, Angry

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• Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Practice, Style

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• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mean, Optimism, Shapes

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Grief, Thinking, Feelings

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Green, Should

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". www.ericspitznagel.com. January 8, 2015.

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• The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Letting Go, Doctors, Scary

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Sometimes, Intention

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• I need a template of a template

  Carrie Brownstein

  Needs

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• For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Interesting, Fans, Film And Television

  "Portlandia Brings Out The Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 6, 2012.

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• If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And that's fine, as long as it's within the bounds of decency and isn't too personal in the vitriol. That's what makes the blog interesting, and that's what makes reading it interesting and that's what makes writing interesting. You don't want everyone to agree.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Strong, Reading, Writing

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Summer, Drama, Kids

  "The GQ&A: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Talk Portlandia". Interview with Hilary Elkins, www.gq.com. March 1, 2013.

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• There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, Anxiety, Get Better

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• Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Dark, Singing, Honest

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