Patty Jenkins Quotes
There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
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There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'
