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Look What Scares You In The Face And Try To Understand It. Empathy Is Revolutionary.

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I'm An Assistant Storyteller. It's Like Being A Waiter Or A Gas-station Attendant, But I'm Waiting On Six Million People A Week, If I'm Lucky.

I Never Wanted To Be An Actor. My Dad Was An Actor, And He Never Brought Joy Home, So I Didn't View It As Something That I Would Want To Do. But I Got Fired As A Secretary, And Then I Started Studying, I Started Doing It Just To Earn Money. And It Took Me A Long Time To Learn To Love It. And What I Loved Was Telling A Story. I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. I Discovered In The Process That It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

While Not Impossible, It Is Especially Challenging For Teenage Parents To Develop Bonds With Their Children. A High Percent Of Them Were Themselves Children Of Teenage Parents And Have Never Experienced Appropriate Parenting.