Patty Jenkins Quotes
Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
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I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.
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My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
