Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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Time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?
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For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
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I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
