Darcey Steinke Quotes
I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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No action is without its side effects.
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I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
