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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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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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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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 think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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Water really does great things for my skin.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.
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When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
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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.
