Jim Harrison Quotes
I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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When you're a young black man, you're not allowed to be emotional. One of the reasons I act is people pay me to be emotional.
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Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
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After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
