Mordecai Richler Quotes
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.
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Our board is not compensated and not staffed. We've never taken $1 in expenses. We look at this as public service.
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The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
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I always wanted to be loved.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
