Jim Harrison Quotes
I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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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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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
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One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.
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I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?
