Lucy Dacus Quotes
It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
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We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.
