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!'

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Listen
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Two
  • Now

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• I'm instinctively a Conservative.

  

  Maurice Saatchi

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• It's pretty shocking that the guys in Europe who cover traditional media will cover Google, whereas in the U.S., there are five different equity analysts that will cover the internet universe.

  

  Danny Rimer
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Universe

• I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• '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!'

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Family
  • American
  • Pretty