Austin Dacey Quotes
Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
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In Russia there are no roads - only areas.
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Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
