Alex Blumberg Quotes
What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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Good music makes you feel something.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
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If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?
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Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
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You don't need to like your protagonists.
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In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.
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What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you.
