Jim Harrison Quotes
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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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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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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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 guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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'Hey, what's the name of that nice young girl, my loyalist supporter?' I said, Mr. President, her name is Annie Ferrer. 'Will you give that girl my regards and kisses?' he asked. I said yes, of course-it was really strange.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
