That's not what I do. I work with actors," "My proposal to the actors was: 'okay,we're going to be in a room we're going to do this strange thing, but every molecule of what you create will be what your character does.

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But you will get glory, whatever glory there is to be had at the front of this room.

但是你会觉得光荣,站在教师前的无上光荣。

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typically, if you play poker in a card room or a casino, I would say nine times out of ten somebody sitting at the table will tell you that they're not trying; it almost always happens.

通常，如果你在棋牌室或者赌场玩扑克，十有八九，我敢说坐在牌桌上的某个人,会告诉你他们并没有在努力去赢；,这几乎总会发生。

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See this is testing your restraint because those of you who have willpower will stay for the rest of the class, the rest of you will flee the room and go to Starbucks right up on the corner and get something like this.

这简直是在考验你们对食物的抵抗力,因为你们中有意志力的人,会留下听完后半节课,其他人则会飞奔出教室,奔向在转弯角上的星巴克,然后买点吃的

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