What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.
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It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
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