Jason Isbell Quotes
If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.
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So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
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Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
