Lucy Dacus Quotes
I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
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One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
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I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
