Lucy Dacus Quotes
If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.
Quotes to Explore
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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A good leader must be fair.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.
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Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
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Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?
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If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.
