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I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

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I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 3rd, 1959

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