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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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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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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Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.
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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.
