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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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I can only say that what this country does not need is another Gestapo bureaucracy like the EPA and OSHA. And we do not want that to happen to the FDA.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
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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.
