Mordecai Richler Quotes
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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Love's whole world on us doth wheel.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.
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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
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Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
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Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
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Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
