Ann Bancroft Quotes
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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There are times I can't even figure myself out.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
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One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
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The most terrible things end, at last.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.
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In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
