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Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1948

Topics

Life Writing Civil Rights Secret

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

Theatre Museum Talk Museums Need

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Robert M. Pirsig

Funny People You Nobody Kind Being

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.

Good Father School City Me Thought

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Power Government Limits Said Right

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art Painting Weather Critic Flat

The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

Family Cheap Mean Only Than Streak

Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I was a standout athlete, so when that happens, you don't have too many people telling you 'You can't do this,' and 'You can't do that.' I've always been a bit of a people person and a hard worker.

People Growing Up Obstacles You Hard

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

Diamond Dallas Page

Life You Living React Percent How

Literature is analysis after the event.

Literature Analysis Event After

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Yourself You Others First Along Get

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

Anne Hutchinson

Light Rules Understand Laws Pathway

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

Fun Writing Book Inevitable Become

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