Jason Isbell Quotes

I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.

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• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

  Quintilian
  • Food
  • Change
  • Like

• What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Actor

• My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Mother
  • Education

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Know
  • Focus

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Words

• For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

  

  Kamala Markandaya
  • World
  • Men
  • Money

• I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • World
  • Writing