Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein

[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. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that’s really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves – it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.

Growing Up

Hate

Shoes

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Exercise

Guitar

Years

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn’t totally a foreign world.

Drama

Kids

Summer

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

Mean

Optimism

Shapes

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Common Threads

Mind

Young

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.

Artist

Car

Etc

I don’t think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

Jobs

Moving

Thinking

I don’t think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good. They can afford bigger houses, or they can actually afford to buy a house, they can work the minimal amount and still get by. I think there’s a really strong sense of community there. It’s beautiful.

Beautiful

Moving

Strong

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Kind

Thinking

Tired

I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an “anti-ambition.” Like, an awareness, and then a subsequent guilt. But sometimes that progressive, liberal guilt is really obnoxious, too – in some ways, I think it’s better to just own it. It’s weird, that actually, the acknowledgement of privilege or the enactment of guilt can be as obnoxious as anything else. It’s a never-ending rabbit hole. We’re really in a rabbit hole right now, with this conversation. We’re just spiraling down into the void.

Culture

Guilt

Thinking

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Always Trying

Animal

Anxiety

Appreciate

Apps

Arms

Art

Artist

Band

Beats

Beautiful

Book

Brain

Calling

Car

Chaotic

Character

Coffee

Common Threads

Crash

Creating

Culture

Dark

Decay

Different

Divorce

Doctors

Doe

Downloads

Drama

Dream

Energy

Erase

Espresso

Etc

Exercise

Fall

Fandoms

Fans

Fearless

Feelings

Get Better

Giving

Goes On

Google

Google Search

Growing Up

Guilt

Guitar

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Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn’t totally a foreign world.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

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.

I don’t think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

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