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"Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do."
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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."
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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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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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"It's a visual world and people respond to visuals."
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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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"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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"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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"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
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"And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places."
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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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"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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"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
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