In a reading from one character he plays onstage, a fighter who dies and comes back.

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As the title figure, a feisty Natalia Osipova, a steely Misty Copeland and an athletic Isabella Boylston each took the independent streak implied by Mr. Ratmansky's reading of the character and made it seem individual to her.

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The central idea is that when reading a story, you replace yourself as the main character.

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Freud, on this reading, was right about the importance of early experience on character formation.

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An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.

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God is a central and evolving character, and human relations with God are quirky and evolving as well, so reading across the Bible can have a unique feel for the sensitive reader.

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But how can children develop moral character or even improve their powers of concentration if they don't understand a word they are reading?

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