Jason Isbell Quotes
As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
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People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
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People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.
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Nothing beats hard work.
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As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.
