Above all, ignore the audience.
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You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.
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