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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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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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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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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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.
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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.
