Jason Isbell Quotes
Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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Having a solo career is a funny thing.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
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Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.
