Patty Jenkins Quotes
To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
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I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.
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To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
