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.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Together
  • Science
  • Myself

• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Need

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• 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.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Decide

• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Save

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Player

• I need to be able to explain myself in context.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Explain

• I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Reflect

• I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Season

• I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Seeing

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Flower
  • Hippie

• Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Money
  • Radio
  • Chances

• All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Belong