Lucy Dacus Quotes

I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

Lucy Dacus

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Know

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Food
  • Enough
  • Moment

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Privilege
  • Serve
  • Honour

• My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • American
  • Parents

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• Everything and anything is valuable.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Everything
  • Anything

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Vain
  • Makes

• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Third World
  • Hair short
  • Wear ties

• We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Night

• I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Funny