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Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

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I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

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I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

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I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

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What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

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It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

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I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

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I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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