Patty Jenkins Quotes
A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing 'have I labored,' neither has my exile been 'in vain.'
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I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story.
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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.
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The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
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A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
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A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?
