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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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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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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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
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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.
