Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
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That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
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Women are strong, and we're way too hard on ourselves.
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I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
