Jason Isbell Quotes
There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.
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I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israel Defense Forces. I love our soldiers. If you feel the same way I do, you have a home.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.
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If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.
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To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness. It is understanding and appreciating the idea that you will be the only you to ever live upon this earth, that when you die so will all of your fantastic possibilities. It is the realization that even you are not totally aware of the wonders which lie dormant within yourself.
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I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
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That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.
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How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?
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I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.
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There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.
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There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.
