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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You are my home, my heart, my love. Good night.
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I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.
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Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.
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I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.
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If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.
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I can write anywhere.
