Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
