Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
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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.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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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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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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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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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.
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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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As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
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By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
