Lucy Dacus Quotes
A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.
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I've heard on the news that they are thinking of putting microchips inside babies so that if they ever get kidnapped that you can track them on Google. But what if technology fails? Well here is my solution: next to the microchip, put a fucking detonator. Listen, if I can't have my baby, nobody can!!!
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.
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I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.
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Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
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I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
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Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
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Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
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People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
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A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
