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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When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
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Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I.
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
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Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.
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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.
