Patty Jenkins Quotes
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I got it all down, ... I think just being off, it fades away a little bit. But it all comes back.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
