Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
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• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
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• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Think
  • Living

• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Ideas

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
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  • Pen

• I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Myself
  • Confidence
  • Place

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Long
  • Book

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • You
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• We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
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  • Balance

• I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Situation
  • Ego

• I think it's really important that we see women represented properly in TV, and that's a multi-dimensional person: a real human being who's flawed, who's weird, who's awesome.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Important
  • Women
  • Real

• There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Together
  • History
  • Value

• The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

  

  Barbara Cubin
  • President
  • Activities
  • Apologized

• I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Time
  • Real
  • Done

• I think towards the end of my career, I'm the man. But right now, I've still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I'm not going to believe the hype.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Career

• Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Space