Lucy Dacus Quotes

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

Lucy Dacus

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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper

KindnessAnimalThingsMostDomestic

For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.

Jens Lekman

MeDemocracySocialismStandYou

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Max von Sydow

MyselfMadStopNowSometimesActor

Dodd-Frank has disproportionately burdened community banks, despite their having no role in the financial crisis.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

CommunityFinancialCrisisRole

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

Sinbad

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My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Trey Parker

TimeSchoolNew YorkNewWillFirst

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

Rodney Crowell

WorkBeautifulTimeArtMeYou

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Judith Martin

AloneRestNeedWouldAttached

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau

LifeLoveDeathMovingRacingSmoke

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

Craig Brown

TweetingMedium

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

LifeHeartRedColorBodyLiving

Money means better meals at better places.

Alison Brie

MoneyBetterPlacesMealsMeans

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