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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?

Anne Bancroft

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Anne Bancroft
Age: 73 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 17
Died: 2005
Died: June 5
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
The Bronx
New York City
Anna Maria Louise Italiano
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The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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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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The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
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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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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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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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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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Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
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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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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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Zen is not interested in high-flown statements it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
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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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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
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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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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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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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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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To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
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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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