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 are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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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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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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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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Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.
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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
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In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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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.
