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Carrie Brownstein Quotes

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Carrie Brownstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1974

Topics

Self-Conscious Sensitive Northwest

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

Hope Me Story American Find Want

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

History Book Violence Attention Copy

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Life Parents Rest Thought Blind

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

Dress You Play Go Living Understand

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Dominic Chianese

Funny Father Son Fire Anger Uncle

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Life Learning Business Early Very

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

Christopher Priest

Work Hard Work Focus Together Ego

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Past People Brave Think You Mean

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

Future Environment Born Duty See

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Life I Am Think Heaven Wonder Earth

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Good Good Things Famous Being Famous

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Change Relationship Art Expectations

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