Jason Isbell Quotes
I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.
