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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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
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I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
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I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
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In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.
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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.
