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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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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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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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
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I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
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Working with Katie Cassidy is amazing... That woman is so prepared and so professional and talented, it's such a joy to show up with her to work with her everyday.
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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.
