Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
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There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.
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I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
