Patty Jenkins Quotes
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
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'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
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Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn't have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you - that's just as amazing.
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The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
