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What's On Yours?

What's On Yours?

Aug 07, 2024
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Dearest, Jolliest, Most Ravishing and Delightful Reader!

Let Us Praise Your To-Do List.

Get it out! Read it to us! What are the top three items? What do you write it on—paper bags? Backs of bills?A special notebook? An app? Where do you keep it? Do you check each item off? Or draw a line through? Does your To-Do List badger and nag you? Or do you thrive thanks to your To-Do List? And . . . what does your To-Do List say about you?

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Here is Marilyn Monroe’s To-Do List

Must make effort to do
Must have the dicipline to do the following –

z – go to class – my own always – without fail

x – go as often as possible to observe Strassberg’s other private classes

g – never miss actor’s studio sessions

v – work whenever possible – on class assignments – and always keep working on the acting exercises

u – start attending Clurman lectures – also Lee Strassberg’s directors lectures at theater wing – enquire about both

l – keep looking around me – only much more so – observing – but not only myself but others …

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