Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
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One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.
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People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.
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For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.
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Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent.
