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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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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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
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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.
