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 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  

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• I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

  

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• My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

  

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• Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart.

  

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

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Thinking
  • Fall