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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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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What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.
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Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.
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...like a predator about to devour the target.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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We become what we pay attention to.
