Patty Jenkins Quotes
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
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Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.
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Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.
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I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
