"I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so."

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Source : Ann Rinaldi (2005). “A break with charity: a story about the Salem witch trials”

Ann Rinaldi

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“The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.”
“I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.”
“I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.”
“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”
“There is no space wider than that of grief ...”
“Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”

Source : "A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht". Book by Ben Hecht, 1954.
“For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”

Source : Diana Abu-Jaber (2007). “The Language of Baklava”, p.186, Anchor

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