Jim Harrison Quotes

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Losing
  • Explaining

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Balance
  • Changes
  • Enthusiasm

• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Start
  • Search
  • Starting

• I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy

• The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Death

• We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Life

• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Up
  • Game
  • Attitude

• I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

  

  Alexis Bledel

• It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Together
  • Funny

• So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Environment

• Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Up
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want to hear him take that and do something that hasn't been done. And there's enough of that going around that keeps the music very exciting. There's so many great young players coming out. I think we're in some kind of renaissance, especially in the rhythm section. I mean the musicians on drums and bass and guitar are really trying to figure out different ways to bring a rhythm section together.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Together

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Teacher
  • Advantage
  • Christianity

• I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Solution
  • Paid
  • Wondered

• I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

  

  Jim Harrison