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Patty Jenkins Quotes

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 24, 1971

Topics

Father World Young Fighter Pilot Up

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

Government War Acting Need Industry

You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.

Culture Cool You Create Play Know

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

Change Music Me Too Much More Punk

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

Me Blessed Grandfather Become May

I'm pretty sure it was President Bill Clinton who brought me back into politics and following it.

Politics Me Back President Pretty

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Nature Strength Myself Racism Look

I think you'd have to live under a rock to not know who MacGyver is.

Live Think You Know Rock Who

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Words Bee Champion Reading Loved

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

Antonio Banderas

Think More Us Govern I Think Any

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

Weather Writing Negative You Look

My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.

Pippa Middleton

Passion Food Cooking Real Month

I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.

Work Basketball Think Work Ethic

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