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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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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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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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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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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.
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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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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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.
