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.

Anne Bancroft

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
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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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

  

  Ram Charan
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  • Say
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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
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• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
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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!

  

  Maimonides
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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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Game
  • You

• 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.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
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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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Man
  • Turn
  • Pancakes

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
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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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  • You
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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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• What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

  

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

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  • May
  • Truth

• Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

  

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• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  

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  • Dance
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• I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting 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.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • People
  • World
  • Good