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The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES. When you're improvising, this me...

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The second rule of improvisation is not only to say yes, but YES, AND. You are supposed to agree and...

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Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a...

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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without wh...

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I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things…My nature...

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

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Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the wor...

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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.