"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."

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"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."

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"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."

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