Lucy Dacus Quotes

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

Lucy Dacus

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• I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Believe
  • Want
  • You

• Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Risk
  • Difficult
  • Living

• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You've always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Like
  • English
  • Birthday

• During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Men
  • Age

• I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Born
  • Situation

• Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Hand

• 'Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Destiny

• It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Live
  • Country
  • Home

• 'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Live
  • Wind
  • Blow

• Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Good

• And even if they hadn't told me, I would have known it was the coldest winter ever. Because I have not had one thought! I have not been able to complete a sentence in my own head! I find myself walking around going 'You know what, I should really... FUCK, IT'S COLD!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Cold
  • Walking
  • Winter

• It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

  

  Odeya Rush
  • She
  • Parents
  • Perfect

• Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Time
  • Book
  • Power

• I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

  

  Etta James
  • Money
  • Crazy

• I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mindset

• I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

  

  Lucy Dacus