Patty Jenkins Quotes
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't like allegories.
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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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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.
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I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
