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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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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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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Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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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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On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
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I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
