Carrie Brownstein Quotes

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

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I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.

Jennifer Salt

TimeSchoolNew YorkThoughtGoNew

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

Jens Lekman

LoveGratefulPeopleSmallTexasUp

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

John Darnielle

GreatSelfSillyYouGreat Things

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

Romeo Santos

MusicLanguageWriteFirstMusically

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

Milton Babbitt

MusicServiceWorldPerformanceDare

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Christina Aguilera

FeelNeedPretendingKeepUsMakes

If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

Brian O'Driscoll

WorkTimeDoingYouBackRepetition

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.

Brian Wilson

MyselfSingingVoiceThinkGenius

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

SoulMy SoulWayOutWeaponWould

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

Per Petterson

GoodMeBlameLongStorytellingHer

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

Tyler Perry

WomenBlackYouHeavenDownEarth

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

Mark Salling

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