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 don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
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There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
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People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.
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So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
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The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
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I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
