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.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Up
  • She
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Films

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Space
  • Driving
  • Healthy

• Well, I can't figure out God.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • Well
  • Out

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Experience
  • Doing
  • Ugly

• You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Patience
  • Jump

• 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.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart

• I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Success
  • Failure

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• 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.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Great
  • Important
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People

• I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

  

  Enrico Colantoni

• The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

  

  Al Roker
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  Brian Posehn

• Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• I reason, earth is short, And anguish absolute. And many hurt; But what of that?I reason, we could die: The best vitality Cannot excel decay; But what of that?I reason that in heaven Somehow, it will be even, Some new equation given; But what of that?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Heaven

• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Experience
  • True
  • Crazy

• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hair

• There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Long
  • True

• I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

  

  Don King
  • Good
  • Done
  • Black

• 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?

  

  Patty Jenkins