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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The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
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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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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
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Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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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.
