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I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.