"In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."
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"At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving."
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"In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that."
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"Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it."
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"My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us."
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"My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy."
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"I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison."
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"We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear."
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"It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again."
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"When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance."
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"I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson."
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"If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it."
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"At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them."
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"We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all."
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"I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying."
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"You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph."
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"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."
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"life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it"
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"The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore."
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"I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again."
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