Lucy Dacus Quotes
Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.
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People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.
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Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
