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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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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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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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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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.
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No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
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I like routine.
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'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
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For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.
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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.
