Always trying Quote by Carrie Brownstein

“I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.”

Carrie Brownstein

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