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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The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"
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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
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If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
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You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
