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W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge. The Razor’s Edge is a book about a quest for knowledge.
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as teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
I always felt my best teachers were entertainers
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
a laugh was formed when the storyteller created tension, then, with the punch line, released it.
Laughter in these poorly designed places rose a few feet into the air and dissipated like steam, always giving me the feeling I was bombing.
keep places crowded to up the tension!
understood I would never be hired in that situation, that the odds of confluence on a certain day of the producers’ desires, my talent, and a good reading were low, and that the audition process was a dead end. I decided to leave Hollywood and go on the road.
Steve’s catalyst!
