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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I love 'MacGyver.'
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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There is no such thing as a typically 'schizophrenogenic' (schizophrenia-producing) family arrangement, one most likely to produce a mentally ill adult from a child with the potential for the disease.
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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
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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.
