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 get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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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 decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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I love being by myself.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
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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.
