"Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed."

-- Alexander Cockburn

#Father Quotes #Party Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?”
“For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.”
“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”
“I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.”

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“How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?”
“I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.”
“I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.”
“I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.”

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