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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."
"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
"On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there."
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."
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