I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy … - Ben Marcus

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Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

Ben Marcus

I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

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