Jim Harrison Quotes
I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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We live a dying dream, If you know what I mean...
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.
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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
