Jim Harrison Quotes
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
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Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
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Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
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Before we were Migos, we were called Polo Club and wore them thangs. It was cool back then, but now it's whack.
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I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
