"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."

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"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."

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"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."

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