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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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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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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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
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On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'
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What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.
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I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
