Quotes by Laeta Kalogridis - Page 1

I just never count on anything. You can't.
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Count
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The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.
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Time Good Always
Good Thing
Passage
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Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.
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Iconic
Therapy
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Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.
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Metaphor
Overwhelming
Superhero
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Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.
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External
Conflicts
Internal
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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Range
Science Fiction
Science Science Fiction Fiction
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
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Carries
Intersection
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This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
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Uncomfortable
Designed
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To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.
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Holy
Holy Grail
Grail
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I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.
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Orlando
Near
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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Future World Live
Headed
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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Graduate School
Silver
Ucla
Arc
Graduate
Joan
Producer
Sold
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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Modern World
World Social Media Media
Constructing
Identities
Largely
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It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.
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Futuristic
Sci Fi
Broader
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All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
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Science Fiction
Warning
Correction
Holding
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Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.
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Strongly
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Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.
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Cope
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There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.
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Becoming
Lawyer
Brief
Cured
Period
Swiftly
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I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.
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Invites
Figuring
Time Experience Art
Gosh
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
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Advocating
Theocracy
Glorifying
Handmaid
Tale
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On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
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Gender
Awful Lot
Battles
Fought
Hand
Issue
Page
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Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
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Blade Runner
Blade
Runner
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I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.
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Regret
Leaps
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It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All those things are really, really a good thing to talk about.
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Criticize
Good Women Always
Good Thing
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There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
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Differences
Tiny
Your Value People
Hundreds
Placed
Something Else
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For years, I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the 'SAO' franchise. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutting-edge yet timeless story to a new format at Skydance.
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Format
Partners
Timeless
Work Opportunity New
Talented
Franchise
Inventive
Masterful
Thrilled
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'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.
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Altered
Carbon
Human Mind
Noir
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Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin were the biggest inspirations for my work because they trod into areas considered to be owned by male writers and created these worlds that are infused with an understanding of so much more than just technology.
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Inspirations
Margaret
Owned
Worlds
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One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.
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Lovely
Replaced
Women Me Woman
Dude
Fired
Promptly
Unaware
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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Interpreting
Work Feel Way
Author
Filtering
Work Way Feel
Regardless
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When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
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Grandfather
Greek
Immigrants
Science Fiction
Strong Women
Science Women Great
Entranced
Goddesses
Myths
Started Reading
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My favorite Asimov works were the 'Foundation' books because the concept, at the time, was crazy, but psycho-history has now turned out to be an actual real thing. You can predict the actions of large groups of people once you understand, for lack of a better way to put it, their way of existing and their prejudices.
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Foundation
Large Groups
Predict
Time Better People
Actual
Asimov
Better Way
Existing
Real Thing
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Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
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Carelessness
Fancy
Human Beings
Indifference
Just One
Natural Resources
Resources
Beings
Instincts
Repository
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