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Jim Harrison Quotes

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

Jim Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Dream Country Two Just Between

To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Happy Me Youth Writing Die Doing

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

Andy Roddick

You New True Central Park Out Park

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

Funny Simple People Laugh Comedy

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

Rufus Wainwright

Father Business Music Time Yourself

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

Jason Blum

Think Important Location Working

Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

David Shields

Good Best Swimming Slow Back Missed

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Christopher Hitchens

Growth Parents Rest Driving Young

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

Peter Morgan

Live People Society Enjoy Understand

I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.

Twinkle Khanna

Myself Think Better Doubt Person

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

Deep Language Belief Need Complain

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.

Leon Max

History Culture Country Lifestyle

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

Jamie Farr

Comedy Sketch Always Years Enjoyed