Jim Harrison Quotes
I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
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If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.
