"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."

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Leon Askin

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“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”
“It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.”
“Self-deception helps us deceive.”
“Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.”

Source : Wendy Mass (2011). “11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.
“On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.”
“A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciÃ¦ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.”
“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”
“I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.”

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