Patty Jenkins Quotes
Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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No one is going to break me. No one is going to stop me. No one is going to remove a vision that I see for myself and the love that's in my heart.
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.
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Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.
