Patty Jenkins Quotes
There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.
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I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
