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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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
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People want you to fail.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
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I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.
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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.
