Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'

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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
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'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'