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Sanford Meisner Quotes: Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.
         

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.


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