Mordecai Richler Quotes
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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There's no regrets for me.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
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Music has always been around with me.
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
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If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
