Patty Jenkins Quotes
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.
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We all come from a woman. We have to make love.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
