Lucy Dacus Quotes

Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• Surprise is key in all art.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Art
  • Surprise
  • Key

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Know
  • Coffee

• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Persistence

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Election
  • Optimism

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Gods
  • Monsters
  • Gaints

• It seems strange that everyone I'm writing about was very famous.... Didn't I ever find anyone interesting who was not famous? Actually, no, I didn't.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Writing
  • Famous
  • Strange

• When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Persons

• I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Cool