Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand.Kelly Sue DeConnick
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
Vanessa Ferlito -
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
Salmon Portland Chase -
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison -
I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
Nancy Cartwright
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
Irina Shayk -
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
Rachel Corrie -
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
Kate Reardon -
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien -
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
A. A. Milne -
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk -
The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
Victoria Moran -
When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe -
I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
Pankaj Mishra -
I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
Ja Rule
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen -
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei -
Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
Aisha Tyler -
The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.
Anne Wojcicki -
'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
Emily Berrington -
Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand.
Kelly Sue DeConnick