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I try to do everything else that I can to make sources feel comfortable enough to talk with me. That doesn’t mean that I don’t ask questions. It means I ask lots of questions. But what I mainly try to do is to be a great audience. I egg them on; I nod; I look straight into their eyes; I laugh at their jokes, whether I think they’re funny or not; I get serious when they’re serious. I kind of echo whatever emotion they seem to be sending to me. I do whatever it takes to get them talking.
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This takes some doing, but if you can bring off a fart, a titter and a blushing apology really close together, it does wonders for loosening the subject up for the hard questions later on. Your own work with Garrison Keillor was proof enough.
Dark Prince, I hear your footsteps.
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