Anne Bancroft Quotes
I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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It's important to me to say what I really mean.
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It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.
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I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.
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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
