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 always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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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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I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
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I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
