Jim Harrison Quotes

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

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• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
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• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
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• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
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• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
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• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
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• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
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• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
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• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
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• Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Fall
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• I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.

  

  Dan Burt
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• I had to make a decision. The kind of choice that you only get to make once and you can't take back, and it makes your life totally different. And even if the path is clear, it's still deeply unsettling.

  

  Hank Green
  • Life
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• The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

  

  Brian Cox
  • World
  • Today
  • Lost

• I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Thinking
  • Fall