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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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
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Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
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I've been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains, and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.
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You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
