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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. ~ Sir Laurence Olivier.

Someone's stolen my credit card info & been trying to use them on supermarket & ticket sites. Am not happy. Hassle galore. #
And now for a #ff The wise: @navarrotells & the talented: @panacea81 #
There are days when I love being from East Anglia: http://bit.ly/dsocYs #
* Think I'm coming down w/ something, dialect work patchy. Voice keeps giving out #
* Welsh dialect work today. Loving Rob Brydon's tones. #
* Singing 'Tell Me It's Not True' from Blood Brothers. #

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I don’t think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find. ~ Dame Judi Dench.

* Working on my first year self appraisal. Regular tweeting definitely gets a "could do better". #
The city I'm from is one of those up for UK City of Culture! Culture? Hmmm. Is it in hiding? #
* Watching 'The Big Chill'. Is there anything about Glenn Close to not love? #
Awww, Vanessa Redgrave is amazing. #BAFTAs #

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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. ~ Peter Ustinov.

Damn EastEnders was good tonight, don't usually watch. Should be be live all the time, much more fun. #
* More Scottish dialect work. #
* Continuing the vocal theme. I need to branch out. #

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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ~ Michael Caine.

* More Mamet, sight-reading and Scottish dialect work. #
* Dialect, sight-reading and first day of Mamet. Nice. #
* More Scottish and continuing the sight reading. #

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Before you can do something you must first be something. ~ Sir John Gielgud.

* Returned to Scottish dialect work. Much better, recognisable now. 6 weeks away from it have done me good. #
* The building blocks can be a tad a dull. Worthwhile, but there's some dullness all the same. #

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It was good to learn so early. They’re not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better. ~ Dame Judi Dench.

* Found an old Muppets tape. I love Ben Vereen's voice, could listen to it for hours. #

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I don’t think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find. ~ Dame Judi Dench.

* Am still working on the voice, practitioners and speeches etc. Not tweeting much as I am still more dull than I care to admit. #
* Singing along to EP on the radio. #
RT @Dramagirl Something I just learned ‘Off-Off-Broadway theaters are defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats.’ #theatre #
Has twitter been slow for you so far this year? Today’s the first time I’ve been able to keep up with my stream in ages. #

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Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. ~ Meryl Streep.

Poss. site hacking + sore throat & joints + upcoming Mum b’day = chaos everywhere. #

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My old drama coach used to say, “Don’t just do something, stand there.” Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing. ~ Clint Eastwood.

* Continuing with Hagen. I’m sensing a long running theme will develop *must be more exciting*. #
* More Hagen. Objectives and “doings”. Finding the word “doings” amusing. Feel about 7 yrs old. #
* More on Hagen. Love that she worked/trained on her own too. #
* Suzman reminds me of my old drama teachers. So giving up on it (is that blasphemy?) and moving on to Hagen, much more fun. #
* Shakespearean Comedy. Yes, more of the same. I am v. dull. #
* Continuing the Suzman theme. #

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You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator. ~ Ralph Richardson.

* Still on the Bard, this time Suzman’s take. #
* Returned to Barton today, ahhh. Am stepping away from the dialect before I get too obssessed. #
* Have been v. quiet on the training front. Two lovely friends gave me voice books/cds for xmas. Am immersed. #
Happy New Year! Have a good one #

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