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“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
Orson Welles quotes (American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer, 1915-1985)

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