Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • She
  • Age
  • Best

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• You just have to do what you know is right.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • You
  • Know
  • Right

• I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
  • Help
  • Man

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• We all do stupid things.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Things
  • Stupid

• I love doing voiceover work.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Voiceover

• Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • She

• I don't think there is any harm in it, but I tell you, there are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. ... You never know what somebody's going to do.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Great
  • Music
  • Experience

• I've got it.. .the Saint Lazare1 train-station in Paris, then. I'll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It's a fascinating sight, a real dream. I'll get them the station office to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Holiday

• Got the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die: give us dirty laundry.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • People
  • She
  • Interesting

• I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Study
  • Prison

• I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'

  

  Kathryn Tucker Windham
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Childhood

• We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

  

  Deborah Raney
  • Important
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm a huge fan of a Hillary Clinton candidacy. I think Hillary will be an incredibly strong candidate, and hopefully it will inspire my party to put up someone great.

  

  Nicolle Wallace
  • Inspire
  • Fan
  • Candidate

• A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Common
  • Fairness

• I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick