They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to … - Robert Crumb

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People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Robert Crumb

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

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You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

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When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

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I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

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Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

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Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

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