Anne Roiphe Quotes
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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I asked John Maynard Smith, one of the first people to pose the question 'Why sex?', whether he still thought some new explanation was needed. 'No. We have the answers. We cannot agree on them, that is all.'
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I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.
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I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
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I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
