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

Anne Bancroft

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. Â You have to do it to get better.”
“There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.”
“All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws!”
“Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.”
“So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.”
“The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.”
“I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.”
“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”

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