“Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.”
Source: Predilections by Mark Singer http://www.errolmorris.com/content/profile/singer_predilections.html
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