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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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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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
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I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
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What I have to show, I show on the track.
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You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
