The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
That's so rare in the world of TV or film to have a genuine friendship turn into something that people watch, that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, whether you've ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
[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.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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