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\n“Describe at least one rehearsal of Three Sisters<\/i> for me. Isn’t there anything which needs adding or subtracting? Are you acting well, my darling? But watch out now! Don’t pull a sad face in the first act. Serious, yes, but not sad. People who had long carried a grief within themselves and have become accustomed to it only whistle and frequently withdraw into themselves. So you can often be thoughtfully withdrawn on stage during conversations. Do you see?”<\/p>\n
— Anton Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper
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