Patty Jenkins Quotes
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
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One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
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Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
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None of my friends really have Twitter. They mainly all have Facebook. I have Facebook too, but I like Twitter more.
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
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I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.
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I answer every single e-mail that comes in myself.
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Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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I have an aggressive streak of my own.
