Lucy Dacus Quotes
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
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I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
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I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
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If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
