When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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“When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.”
— Penn Jillette · Freak
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✦ About the Author
✦ More by Penn Jillette
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
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I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
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It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
✦ More Freak Quotes
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Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
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I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.
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Cam Wake is a freak of nature. He's built different. I've never seen the guy eat anything bad. I'd tell him to grab a snack with me after practice and he'd get a handful of grapes.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.