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"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
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"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
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"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."
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"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
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"The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information."
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"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."
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"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."
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"As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years."
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"An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place."
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"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
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"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
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"I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences."
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"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing."
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"I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time."
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"I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new."
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"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
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"And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion."
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"There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books."
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"Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on."
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