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Kent Haruf Quotes

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1943 - November 30, 2014

Topics

Children Cute Think Trying Risk

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Home Business Start Savings Without

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

Live Simple Laughter People Song

I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad.

Remember Phone Down Drama New Upset

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Future Past Think You Comfort Young

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

Steven Spielberg

Change I Am Me Looking You Know

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

You Ghetto Know Want Leaving Why

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Trust Man Control Others Cannot Who

It's good to see more young people playing instruments.

Good People Young More See Playing

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

Border Grow House Nice Kinds Front

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

Colson Whitehead

Job Me Right Fiction Tool Only

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Business Today People You Look Up

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

Seann William Scott

Walk Bridge View Brooklyn Three

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