Carrie Brownstein Quotes

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

Carrie Brownstein

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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

John Hurt

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I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

Matt Cartwright

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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

Tristram Stuart

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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Michelle Shocked

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I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

Mindy Grossman

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Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

Johnny Van Zant

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I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

Dennis Farina

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When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.

Derf

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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

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I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

Chuck Berry

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