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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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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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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The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.
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Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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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.
