Lucy Dacus Quotes

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • United States

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • Up
  • Environment

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Cautious

• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Science

• The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rings' movie premiere. I was at the movie theater, and someone came up, and it was so weird to me, because I had never been recognized by a viewer, so I thought that was scary.

  

  Connor Franta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• What’s going on in this country is insane. And we have people running our country that don’t know what they’re doing, they’re grossly incompetent, and it’s time. We have to make change, real change. Not Obama change, we have to make change.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

  

  Lucy Dacus
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