Patty Jenkins Quotes
There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
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I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
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When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
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What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
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We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.
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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
