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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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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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 feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it's such a growth and a learning lesson.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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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.
