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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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