"It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer."

-- Leslie Banks

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“So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.”
“That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.”
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.”
“Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Faith comes out of the heart not the head.”
“Poems are difficult to silence.”

Source : "The Answer Man" by Stephen Greenblatt, www.newyorker.com. August 8, 2011.
“I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.”
“Courage! Do not fall back.”

Source : Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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