Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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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.
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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.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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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.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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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.
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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.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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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.
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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
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Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
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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.
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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
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Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
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You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Revolt is the right of the people.
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
