Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I've traveled around the world.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
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Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.
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We become what we pay attention to.
