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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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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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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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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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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Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
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For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
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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.
