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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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
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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!'
