"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."

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"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."

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"It's a visual world and people respond to visuals."

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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."

Question, Questions

"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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"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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"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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"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 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."

Time, People

"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."

Time, Books

"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."

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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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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

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"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."

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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

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"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

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