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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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
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What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
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It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.
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I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
