Mordecai Richler Quotes

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

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• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

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• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  

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• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

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• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

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• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  

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• I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

  

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• At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

  

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• The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.

  

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• I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

  

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• Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?

  

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• The first idea is an imagined thing.

  

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• If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

  

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• Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

  

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• You always want to be part of something you're so passionate about.

  

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• Kids would tell me I was fat and say other mean things about my body.

  

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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

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• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

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• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

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• The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

  

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• It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

  

  Mordecai Richler
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