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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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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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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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Without changing my style and who I am, they Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.
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I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
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To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
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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.
