Mordecai Richler Quotes
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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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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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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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He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).
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I always wear Nike trainers and love a hoodie. I have a big black and gold one from Adidas that I'm obsessed with.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
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Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
