Kent Haruf Quotes

He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.

Цomen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

My ideas are all the same but look different.

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

New research shows that men and women are born different. What must you think if that is shocking news to you? Men and women are born different.