Mordecai Richler Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.
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I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
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Hopefully, I've helped him with my influence of being a better man and a better person. I can't tell him how to do everything. I can help and encourage him in any way I can. It's my job to put him in the best position to succeed. Off the court, I try to live my life the best way.
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I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
