Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

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• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Control
  • Now
  • Soviet

• I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Winning

• Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Learn
  • Understand
  • Curiosity

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Advice

• Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Life
  • Death
  • Writer

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Rain

• I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.

  

  Amber Benson
  • Bad
  • Weird

• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden

• I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

  

  Lisa Tuttle

• Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

  

  Phillip Adams
  • Success

• I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

  

  Charles Bukowski

• Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

  

  The Weeknd
  • School
  • Insecurity

• Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

  

  Liam McIntyre
  • Opportunity

• You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

  

  Joe Thomas
  • Life
  • True
  • Interesting

• Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• It spurred me to such action as I took, - but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • High
  • Action
  • Silence

• If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

  

  Chick Corea
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Small

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • People
  • Problem
  • Matter