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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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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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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Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.
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That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.
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As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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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.
