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.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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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.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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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.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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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.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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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.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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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.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
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I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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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.
