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How to Pass as Normal Without Dying Inside
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One of the central ideas in You Seemed Fine is that looking okay and being okay are not necessarily the same thing. I got very good at looking okay. This excerpt is from the chapter where I try to figure out how that happened, what it cost, and why a person can become surprisingly skilled at impersonating someone who has everything under control.
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“Anything I learned about Real Acting I learned from watching Alec Baldwin. By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.” Alec is a master of both Film Acting and Real Acting. He can play the emotion at the core of a scene—he is falling in love, his mother is torturing him, his mentor has been reincarnated as a peacock—while reciting long speeches word for word and hitting all the jokes with the right rhythm. You would be surprised how many major Oscar-winning movie stars cannot do this. There are only about nine people in the world who can do this; maybe three more that we don’t know about in North Korea. Alec knows how to let the camera come to him. He can convey a lot with a small movement of his eyes. He speaks so quietly sometimes that I can barely hear him when I’m standing next to him, but when you watch the film back, it’s all there.”
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Then, that email bounces back rejected with a note that says they no longer use that email address. It advises me to reapply using the same contact form that they originally rejected me with.
The clincher: I was rejected because my website uses a contact form, too.
No thanks, Goodreads.”
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“You no longer pretend you’re climbing a ladder. You’ve kicked it over and made a quaint/kitschy bench out of the pieces. (Depends on who sees it.)”
― You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization
― You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization
“Most days, I feel like I’m doing my best attempt at impersonating a normal human being.
Results vary.”
― You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization
Results vary.”
― You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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