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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
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Theater
Understand
Character
Trying
Kind
Always
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Motives

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