Lucy Dacus Quotes
Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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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.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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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.'
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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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.
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We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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The creative process doesn’t change much. When writing a song, you’re looking for melody, rhythm and words that people can relate to.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'
