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I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

Carrie Brownstein

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Carrie Brownstein
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: September 27
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I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
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I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.
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