Alan Blinder Quotes
There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
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There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.
