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I willed myself into being.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Being Myself

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I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Age Early Either Languages Learned Lived More New New York Speak Twenties Wish York Young Young Age I Wish

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Nutty fans are fine with me, as I have no known nut allergy. In general, though, it's best to carry an EpiPen to deal with outbreaks of fan nuttiness.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Allergy Best Carry Deal Fan Fans Fine General Known Me Nut Nutty Though

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I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: About Along Color Depression Exists Happiness Joy Kind Plays Scariest Sucks Things Think I Think

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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 think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Attitude Best Bit Describe Little Little Bit Lot Moments Our People Sonic Them Think Tone Unsettling Would I Think

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I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Beginnings Distinct Endings Fluid Generally Little Lives Lot More People Stories Than Things Think Very Want I Think

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What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Able About Appreciate Art Band Because Did Different Felt Focusing Music Records Sensibilities Six Statement Were

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I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Because Diminishing Exalt Hard Like Live Past Present Such A Way Think Try Way I Think

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I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried to maintain that duality, because I think fandom is a way of being porous and curious, but it did feel like a step forward.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Always Away Because Being Curious Did Duality Fan Feel Forward Like Maintain Performer Realized Right Right Away Step Step Forward Switching Think Tried Way I Think

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With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: After Analysis Basics Covering Discourse Field Focused

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 27th, 1974

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