Jason Isbell Quotes
You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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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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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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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.
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When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.
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I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.
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There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.
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You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
