Kent Haruf Quotes
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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My first thought is always of light.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
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I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
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I secretly want to shave my head.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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I don't have to fight if I don't want to.
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In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I'm across the board.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming.
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Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
