Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

Carrie Brownstein

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PeopleThinkWantMoreBeginnings

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

John Carpenter

GoodJobThinkComedyKnowWant

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Andre Maurois

OriginalWhoAvoidDoesEccentricity

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Ann-Margret

CharacterMeAcceptCriticsImage

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

GreatArtExperienceOutSeemsCome

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Roma Maffia

PeopleMeBlackEnoughYouGo

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.

Mike D

RespectDoingWantWhyUsKids

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.

Chrystia Freeland

GoodPeopleCommunismWorldRemember

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.

Bob Menendez

PeopleChallengesWorldFaceCountry

I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.

Ashley Jones

CharacterHeartBeautifulYouBold

I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.

Sydney Pollack

LifeGoodPerformanceThinkMy Life

Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists.

Norman Davies

AgeHistoryTimeWarWorldThink

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Norm Dicks

TimeGovernmentCompetitionBelieve

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