{"author":"Carrie Brownstein","author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels. ","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["impossible","me","you "],"id":4230,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["words","me","living "],"id":13819,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. ","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["moving","leaving "],"id":16257,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["nature","thinking","me "],"id":23533,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["ambition","feminism","women"],"id":38976,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["funny","think","seriously "],"id":41376,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something - survived it, experienced it - is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["carrie-brownstein","living","music-books","music-memoir","nostalgia","portlandia","remembering","survive","survived","surviving"],"id":43269,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"That’s why all of those records from high school sound so good. It’s. It that the songs were better- it’s that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now. Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we’ve lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something- survived it, experienced it- is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living though something. Though hard to grasp, nostalgia is elating to bask in- temporarily restoring color to the past. It creates a sense memory that momentarily simulates context. Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited; it doesn’t require the difficult task of negotiation, the heartache and uncertainty that the present does.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["carrie-brownstein","hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl","nostalgia","quote"],"id":51415,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"I felt that first awareness that there’s a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you’ve never heard—the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["newness","travel","wonder"],"id":100418,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"},{"text":"It was about having a box in the attic or basement or attic or garage, something we could return to over and over again, something that said, this is us, this is where we were last year, and this is where we'll stay, and this is where we'll pile on the memories, over and over again, until there are so many memories that it's blinding, the brightness of family, the way love and nurturing is like a color you can't name because it's so new.","author":"Carrie Brownstein","tags":["family-relationships","holidays"],"id":158017,"author_id":"Carrie+Brownstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}