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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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
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The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.
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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
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Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.
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I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
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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.
