Patty Jenkins Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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I am super-comfortable with powerful women.
