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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An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
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You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.
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I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.
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I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it steroids. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.
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Once you're finally in a place at Saturday Night Live that you're really comfortable, that's when you should probably be leaving, unfortunately. I think most people stay two or three years longer than they should, because it's very simple, the vacations are great, and you get good at what you do. It's like any job, you're like, "Oh, I know how to do this." You know it's a temporary thing, but it's easy not to walk away from. You find yourself going, "I'll leave next year, or I'll leave the year after." But it's a job you probably shouldn't be at for longer than five years, to be honest.
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I can write anywhere.
