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“The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.”

Michael Shurtleff

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If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

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