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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."

"An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper."
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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."


"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."


"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."


"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."


"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."


"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"
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