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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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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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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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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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My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
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Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
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Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
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“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
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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.
