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"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."
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"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."
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"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."
People
"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."
Thought
"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."
Media
"Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to."
Life
"I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad."
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"I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
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"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
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