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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
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"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race."
Power
"Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans."
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"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."
History
"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
Media
"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
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"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book."
Love
"If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture."
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"I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances."
History
"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."
Friendship
"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
Art
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