Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

We become what we pay attention to.

Sue Monk Kidd

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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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Type
  • Amount

• 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.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

  

  Vanity
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Blind

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Day
  • Find
  • Everyday

• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Life
  • Political
  • Me

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer.

  

  Brad D. Smith

• We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Conflict
  • Americans
  • Solutions

• I always miss New York when I leave it.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• We become what we pay attention to.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Become