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  • I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

    "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.