Lucy Dacus Quotes
The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
-
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
-
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
-
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
-
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
-
I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
-
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
-
People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
-
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
-
There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
-
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
-
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-
I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
-
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-
If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
-
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
-
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
-
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
-
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
-
I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
-
Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.
-
The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.
