Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

Sue Monk Kidd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationWritingThinkLearnYou

I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don't want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots.

McKayla Maroney

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Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

Shimon Peres

PeacePeopleWorldOthersEconomy

Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.

Robert Fogel

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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Ronald Reagan

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I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

Rufus Sewell

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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

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What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Roy Ayers

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When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

Louis C. K.

TimeCapitalismWalkingSidesNeed

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.

Lisa Jewell

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My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

Jayne Meadows

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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

Jason Isbell

MoneyPeopleOpportunitiesGrowUp

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