Jason Isbell Quotes
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
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I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole.
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Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
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Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
