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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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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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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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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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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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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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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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.
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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
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I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.
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I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.
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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.
