Jim Harrison Quotes
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
