Jim Harrison Quotes
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.
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Democracy fascinates me.
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Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
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As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.
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My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
