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" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "

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" Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest. "

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" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "

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" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

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" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "

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