Patty Jenkins Quotes

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

Patty Jenkins

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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

Gabourey Sidibe
- People
- Up
- Book
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Warren Farrell
- World
- Women
- Today
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

Halldor Laxness
- Up
- Work
- Thoughts
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

Kate Bush
- Music
- Father
- Piano
I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.

Sam Heughan
- Up
- Perfect
- Always
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

Uday Kotak
- People
- Up
- Different