Lucy Dacus Quotes
I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
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I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
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I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right.
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I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.
