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So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#aids #amendment #amendment rights #arise #country

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#edit #go #important #important thing #learn

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#hated #i #just #two #years

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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