Jason Isbell Quotes
I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I was a campaign widow.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
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Still let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.
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When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously.
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I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.
