Jim Harrison Quotes
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
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A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
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Everybody had one thing in common: we were all taught to hate Israel and the Jews. In the universal hatred that was preached against Jews, virtually no distinction was made between the Jewish religion and the Israeli state. In my Christian private school, we studied only the New Testament.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
