Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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

• When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Action

• I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Love
  • Save

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

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • People
  • Problem
  • Matter