Jim Harrison Quotes
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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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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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
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The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
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You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
