Mordecai Richler Quotes

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Mordecai Richler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: January 27, 1931 - July 4, 2001

Topics

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Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don't have any fads.

Jerry Hall

LoveDayEatingSoupFishSalad

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jerome K. Jerome

I AmSufferingMedicineNeverDealt

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.

John Cleese

PeopleSmallThinkLaughTryingYou

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Matthew Fox

CharacterBuildingFilmmakingAlways

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Anna Quindlen

FamilyTimePeopleBreadMeatOlder

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

Amy Chua

FatherHistoryBestParentsMeSaid

No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

Mindy McCready

MatterProtectKidGoingHappens

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Loretta Lynn

WinningAwardsNashvilleHerBecause

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

EducationMoneyHelpHealthcareWill

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Denzel Washington

BestI AmEffortPeopleThinkCup

Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters as early inspiration.

Sheila Heti

MusicEarlyGroupWhyInspiration

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.

Thomas R. Marshall

SeaNothingTwoAwayAgainBrothers

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