Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
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I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.
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As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom - both domestic and international - as well as matters of the culture and the American family.
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In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.
