Jim Harrison Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
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I can write anywhere.
