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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My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
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I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.
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My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
