Mordecai Richler Quotes
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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You help families focus on the future through their children.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
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With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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I've always been a voracious reader.
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My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.
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I think I was raised by a really good mother.
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In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
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The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
