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.

Mordecai Richler

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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!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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  • Never
  • Lies

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
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  • No Regrets

• 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.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
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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.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Work
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• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring

• 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.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
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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.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
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  • Past

• For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Genius

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• Music has always been around with me.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Time
  • Family
  • Golf

• I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Mother

• Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Up
  • Trying

• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Disappointment
  • Deep Love

• I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam

• There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • High

• One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Art
  • History

• 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.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • Manage