Anne Bancroft Quotes

• The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

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  Overcoming

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• Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

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  Fun, Journey, Slow Down

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• The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.

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  Heart, Keys, Voice

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• Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

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  Paradise, Rewards, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

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  Leadership, Girl, Sports

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• The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.

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  Husband, Way, One Thing

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• I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Overcoming

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• For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

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  Heart, Journey, Fiber

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• ... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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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.

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  Talking, People, Miracle

  "Actor Anne Bancroft dies at 73". www.abc.net.au. June 08, 2005.

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• I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

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  Teacher, Saws, Lucky

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• It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

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  Imagination, Important, Stories

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• If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

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  Matter, Wrong Person, Reason

  The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

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  Roles, May, Want

  The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

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  Grateful, I Am What I Am, If You Like Me

  The New York Times Interview, 1958.

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• So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

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  Anniversary, Thinking, Reason

  Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Healthy

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• I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

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  Strong, Stress, Doubt

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• ... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

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  Lonely, Journey, Family And Friends

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• A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

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  Travel, Life Lesson, Thinking

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• The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

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  Poetry, Should, Haiku

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• Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

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  Apples, Want, Pupils

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• The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

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  Reality, Ego, Training

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• Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

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  Self, Form, Should

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• Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

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  School, College, Achievement

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