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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I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
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The cold war is over; Japan won.
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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.
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Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
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I can write anywhere.
