Jim Harrison Quotes

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

Jim Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

Topics

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You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

Andrew J. West

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In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad.

Megan Rapinoe

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Americans don't want immigration. They don't want any more. Why can't we have a home? You see on 'National Geographic,' 'Oh, the indigenous people, they have a home.' Everyone else can have a home. We are the only people on Earth not allowed to have a home.

Ann Coulter

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Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Michael Dirda

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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Rory McIlroy

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Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Ron Carlson

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I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Denis Leary

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You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.

Denise Morrison

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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Donna Shalala

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I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'

Chris Squire

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I'm not a morning person.

Christy Turlington

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