Lucy Dacus Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the so-called band of brothers, volunteering for duty with the Kerry campaign. They look like men with scores to settle.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.
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You can't really take a vinyl record player on a plane so you're not going to have the same experience, but if you walk yourself away and allow yourself to experience these different moments with music, you're so much richer in experience for that. That's what I believe.
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My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
