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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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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Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…
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I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
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I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
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It's really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think.
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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.
