Patty Jenkins Quotes
When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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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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A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
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When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.
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Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
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When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.
