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 was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
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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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He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel spiritual.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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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.
