Patty Jenkins Quotes
I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
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Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
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All I can say is that the Great Barrier Reef is the most vulgar thing I’ve ever seen. It’s one’s worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.
